The title to this week’s blog is a common, well known, quite cliché’ phrase that I recently heard used in the movie “Soul Surfer” which is an awesome story based on the real life experience of Bethany Hamilton, the World Class Pro Surfer who lost one of her arms in a shark attack back in 2003....
As I cried my way through the beautiful re-telling of Bethany’s story, my heart began to ponder a few questions…questions I have yet to shake loose as a matter of fact…..
Bethany’s story is one that would’ve drawn many to see it simply due to the inspirational nature of her dramatic comeback from such a tragic event, but the fact that the Hamilton family was so adamant to see to it that their obvious faith in God through Jesus Christ was shared throughout the telling of their story caused a few questions to rise up within me…. What if we tend to look at trials and difficulties that enter our lives incorrectly? What if, when tragedy enters our lives, God is literally entrusting it to us because He knows, as He looks on and searches our hearts, that He can entrust tragedy to some who will, in the midst of their altered lives, grief, pain and disappointment, allow their faith in Him to shine brighter; thereby allowing Him to glorify Himself and do a work in and through them that everyone around them will know was simply impossible for them to accomplish in their own strength apart from Him?
As I’ve pondered these questions and this way of looking at things over the past few days, I’ve found myself praying not for hardship or difficulty to enter my life, but rather that God will allow this new “perspective” to continue in my heart so that I might be able to remember, like the Hamilton's were faithful to do, that God has a plan and a “mysterious work” that He desires to accomplish in and through my life whenever He sovereignly allows difficulty and hardship to touch it….Dear Friends, as I write this, I am praying the very same for you as well.
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