Reminded of His Power

These past couple of days have been pretty rough, especially for a certain few of my friends. They've dealt with doubt and inner pain, frustration, nervousness... Yesterday was THE day for one of my good friends. While I can't go into detail, I am happy to say that the cards that were dealt to my friend were much...better than we all originally thought. We left happy, hugging and crying, smiling and just thankful for God's mercy. I realize that this might make no sense to those who have no idea what I am talking about, and for that I apologize. However, that isn't necessarily the point of this blog.

Throughout this whole experience with said friend, so many prayers have been offered up. My prayers, his prayers, prayers from friends, family, even my family, even from my own friends that don't even know him. People who I didn't even know prayed...they did as well.

I've always accepted "God's will" in my life. Sometimes, I realize full well that I have not been following what He would have me do in life, other times I can see His hand in exactly what I am doing. In this particular case, I knew that whatever the final decision, it would be what God would allow, but never in all my dreams did I expect the Mercy that God showed us yesterday. God's grace and love showered over my friend and our friends and his family like I hadn't seen in a long while. In a situation where anything could go terribly wrong, where many could have been hurt or upset, where the final decision could have broken our hearts, God gave us a tremendous sense of hope.

And that's ultimately what this blog is about: God's power. It's a beautiful thing. When you're completely down, He can take care of you, He can love on you, He can let you sit on His lap and just cry until the bad feels a little better. There's a song that has always been such a comfort to me, in the bad times, even in the good times:
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When I cannot feel, when my wounds don't heal
Lord I humbly kneel, hidden in You
Lord, You are my life so I don't mind to die
Just as long as I am hidden in You

If I could just sit with You a while, if You could just hold me
Nothing could touch me though I'm wounded, though I die
If I could just sit with You a while, I need You to hold me
Moment by moment, 'till forever passes by

When I know I’ve sinned when I should have been
Crying out my God and hidden in you
Lord I need you now, more than I know how
So I humbly bow, hidden in you.
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There's always been a great comfort at the idea of being able to go sit on My God's lap and share with Him all my problems and just cry out to Him and let Him hold me. I love the idea of a strong Father to hug me tight. And that's how I felt yesterday. I know that's my friend help, and I'm hoping that's how everyone there felt as well.

Praise God Who loves us, even when it's hard to love ourselves. Praise God Who is constantly watching over us!