Sometimes we go through a lot of horrible, heart wrenching circumstances. When it rains, it pours. Honestly, it’s an ongoing, never-ending monsoon over here. And I often feel like I’m drowning.
As Christians, we WILL face trials and tribulations.
“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds…” – James 1:2
WHEN. Not if. We will encounter monsoons. But James goes on to say that the monsoons create steadfastness and steadfastness perfects and completes us in Christ. The point of monsoons is to equip us. They leave us “lacking nothing.”
I find this ironic, actually. As the seemingly eternal monsoon is looming overhead right now, I feel as though I am lacking everything. I’m squelched of energy, deprived of joy, stripped of hope. These trials I am facing right now seem to be taking every last bit of me.
So, how is it that on the other side of this monsoon I will be more equipped and lacking in nothing for the next season of my life?
I would really like to end this with something uplifting and joyful. But, I don’t have it in me, nor do I see the goodness at the end of the massive storm. I’m in the fish’s belly – unable to see what’s ahead of me. I’m in the middle of one of David’s angry and bitter Psalms. I know it’s not finished being written, but right now I am stuck on the desperate and dramatic part. It’s a writers block of sorts in my heart.
The thing I hold onto in my desperation is this:
“You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness and comfort me again.”
Psalm 71
Holding onto past victories and hopes. That’s all we can do sometimes.
I cannot wait to write about how I am left lacking nothing when the monsoon passes.
