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Pain of This Life


My cousin has died.  My heart rips for my family and especially for her mother.  Anger wells up inside me just thinking about how senseless this is.  Anger is not directed at a person, or even at God.  The anger points to our fallen world in general.  I know that God didn’t cause her state of being.  He is not to blame for people’s choices, nor an accidental occurrence.

Prayers and thoughts have been with her family and friends.  God be glorified in all this mess.  Draw those in pain closer to You, the source of comfort, peace and strength. 

There has been a hunger in me for more of the Lord’s presence.  I pick up my Bible and go to the concordance and search out specific words like “King” and “Throne.”  A song hit me yesterday that Tamela Mann sings, Take Me To The King.  Pointing to the pain of this life, only finding salvation through Jesus Christ.  That salvation gives us direct access to our King, God the Father.
 
 

 Heavenly Daddy, thank you for this life we enjoy with our loved ones.  Please be with those in pain, especially my family in this time of suffering.  I pray for a miracle but I cannot specify what that miracle will be.  It could be the salvation being accepted of a loved one.  In whatever miracle, I pray you are glorified here.  Please be the source of peace which surpasses understanding to my family.  Please provide your healing touch to the hurting.  Lord, where there are not words, I know Holy Spirit intercedes for us.  Help my family be united in this horrible loss.  In Jesus precious Name, where there is power, Amen.

 God bless anyone who reads this.  May your pain be eased by Our Healer.

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