Where is God in this Soup of Mess?

What do we do with a God that we don't understand. Duress, testing, hardship, and challenges come. One dear sister cried out that it is all too much; God is asking too much. I understand. After fighting severe anemia for months, I learned that the root of the problem lay in fibroid tumors. I still desire to have children, so quite a few questions begin looming largely in my heart. What is God up to- I mean what He is expecting me to do with this situation. Wait and trust: the two hardest words when we are in pain.

"This is what the Almighty LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: You can be saved by returning to me. You can have rest. You can be strong by being quiet and by trusting me. But you don't want that" (Isa. 30:15).

Wait and trust. God already knows what is in my heart and yours. Tests come to prove our mettle. So, when I fell my bike and slashed my knee open the same week, my first thought was how the blood loss would affect my anemia. Affect it, it certainly did and not positively. When problems pile up us, it is human to think that we are alone. Where is God in all of this? But God iterates the message of wait and trust:

In this 'soup of mess,' a dear friend, who is facing her own emotional and physical struggles wrote this to me (I send it now to you):

"How is your heart? And how hard is the struggle to believe God for His supernatural care of you overall? O,_______ (fill in your name), He loves you SO MUCH!!! I am here . . . feeling the waves of love He has for you and it is beautiful and powerful. And I do mean power-full. He wants you to know that you are His precious daughter [or son] and that He takes great delight in you. He is your papa, your daddy, your Abba, your father... He is all of it and His loving arms are around you in this time where you have boo-boos.

I know how I feel when one of my little ones comes to me crying because she has boo-boos and is bleeding and I assure you it is intense. Now, let's multiply that by an unimaginable factor and still realize we will come up seriously short to even grasping how much fatherly compassion He has for you, his baby. He loves you and there is power in this love. Sink into His arms and let the healing continue until it is complete.

His love will make you well. I do not know how this looks but I believe this is His promise for you. "



Trusting and Waiting,
M.J.

P.S.  Do a concordance search for the words trust and rest. There are some real gems in God's Word.

Psalm 46: 1-5
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.