Troubles

My family used to foster children, that means we took in orphans until they found forever homes. I remember holding each baby individually and loving them to pieces. I remember loving them and watching them leave us. It was heartbreaking. All the babies we had we wished to adopt and we had our minds set to it, but ended up kissing them good bye. The hardest one to lose was Love. She was our only girl foster baby, we had her for eight months total, praying and hoping we could adopt her. We were told constantly that we had no hope, she was never going to be ours. We so badly wanted to prove the foster employers wrong. But we ended up having the baby for eight months and losing her. I remember being so devastated as she was taken away, I never wanted to say good-bye.  But I did. It was awful. I was broken into two and couldn't heal for months. Devastation comes. So does hurt and disappointment.

Hard times come, they really do. If you think you haven't experienced it yet, it's coming. You may be one of those people who is strong in the faith. You're a firm believer, you go to church every Sunday, you may attend other groups throughout the week, and you may continually ask God to bring you closer to him. The troubles are sometimes are so rough, they stress you out, drain you physically, spiritually, and emotionally. You feel you cannot rest in peace.

Read in the Bible, Matthew 11:28 "Come to me who all are weary and burdened and I will give you rest."

 God can give you rest when your next day is unpredictable. You're drained because today was extremely hard, and who knows what tomorrow brings. Listen, God CAN give you rest because he knows tomorrow, he knows the troubles, and he has them defeated.

 Yes, troubles are life, you may have small troubles like, tests, exams, or friends. Or maybe you have bigger ones like loss, death, or devastation. No matter how faithful you are, troubles are coming your way, left and right. Satan's trying to beat you, but God, if you let him, can destroy those problems with a word.

 I consider myself a pretty faithful person, but that doesn't mean I don't sin, or go through trials. I try my best to be a godly person, but I've gone through heartache, loss, death, and devastation. But I can not leave the good things out.  God has also given me peace, joy, happiness, and contentment.

 Every one of us have been through heartache, sorrow, and stress, but we also have gone through joy and happiness, along with peace.  That comes from the Lord.