“It’s been hard.
You know — a brutally hard year, an unexpectedly hard season, an endlessly hard road.
You know — you got that call and you heard the words that you prayed against, begged against, braced against. You found it hard to hear, your heart banging like a sledge hammer, trying to pound its way out.
Or…you never get a call at all. The silence of all that isn’t, and won’t be now, about drives you mad.
In the dark, in the middle of the night, it gets very clear:
He who is driven by fears, delays the comfort of (Abba) God.
You can want someone to reach over and touch your unspoken broken, your thin bruised places, and smooth out the pain you can hardly speak of:
Suffering begs us to do anything to end our ache — when actually only (Abba) God can.
It takes incredible courage to wait on (Abba) God in what feels like a hellish place— and trust that love of heaven is holding us.
It takes courage to trust that the writing of one’s whole good and redemptive story takes time. Healing takes longer than you think; the ways of (Abba) God take longer than you want. It takes time, a lifetime, to turn the ache of our longings toward Him.
We can simply want our situation solved — when (Abba) God simply wants to be our answer.
And the best situation — is always what makes (Abba) God your best hope.
And no matter your situation today, there’s this truth that rises through the dark:
In the middle of things seemingly not working out for us — (Abba) God is working out something in us.
#Abba #TheBrokenWay #TheWayMaker”
Ann Voskamp
