Is your life heavy and hard to take?

For a few years I have been writing a book about our journey with Victoria. It has been a hugely emotional process, re-living those traumatic times. 

Sometimes it seems like a really bad dream because our life is so different now. Yes, Victoria is still living with the impacts of the tumour, and yes our family is still working through the emotional outfall of the trauma, but we are not in that place of desperation we once were. In those years we lived with hope that God would bring us through. And He did.

Reading these scriptures this morning describes it so well.

I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all - oh, how well I remember - the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

God's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great is your faithfulness! I'm sticking with GOD (I say it over and over) He's all I've got left.

GOD proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from GOD.

Lamentations 3:19 - 26 The Message 

We are grateful for His never-ending mercy, love and faithfulness. 

Further on the scripture says,

When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worst. Lamentations 3:28-30 The Message

Question for today, if your life heavy and hard to take? If yes, then why not do as God tells us to ...

1. Go off by yourself

2. Enter the silence

3. Bow in prayer

4. Don't ask questions

5. Wait for hope to appear

6. Don't run from trouble

7. Take it full face

You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!' Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD is with you. 2 Chronicles 20:17 NKJV