Blessings

Hi Everyone,

I know the song below is really popular right now but that is not why I posted it.

"Blessings" By Laura Story

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching(s) of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise

My guess is that nearly every one of us has desires and longings that may seem right to us and that we pray about, but yet God in his wisdom, who sees the whole picture, says "no" or sometimes "wait." Or there may be circumstances that are hard that we can't change that God has allowed, and yet He has purposes much higher than our own. As this song says, He, knowing our hearts loves us too much to give us anything less than the absolute best--and the "Real True Best" may look totally different than what we would have ever imagined it to be. When it all comes down to the grind of living it out day by day, in the midst of the challenge, it comes down to TRUSTING that what He has said is best--IS BEST. That isn't always easy, but with His strength it is more than possible.. As the song says our greatest disappointments and the achings of this life reveal a deeper thirst---a thirst only met by Him that only He can satisfy....and maybe someday we will understand the blessing and the perfect plan that He had for us behind that hard circumstance or even why He said "no." Somehow the pain, the longing, the disappointment, the surrender (sometimes over and over again), and our trust in His perfect will, in the midst of a sinful world, can be part of the process to transform us to be more like Him---if we allow them to---and refuse to turn bitter instead.