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god's most tender care

4/24/2016

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There are times in life when sorrow lays us low: when our children are suffering, when we experience the death of a beloved one, as we watch our parents become frail and roles reverse, when a long-held dream must be surrendered for a new reality. The first major such experience requires us to find our way through with no maps, no easy path, no patent how-to, no one-size-fits-all solution.

But our God makes us unique. In Matthew we read, "Blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted." In Ecclesiastics we read "There is a season....
A time to cry and a time to laugh. A time to grieve and a time to dance." When Jesus' dear friend died and He encountered the grief of his beloved family and we learn, "Jesus wept." We have a God who allowed His own beloved Son to die for us.

This God reveals Himself to us as a compassionate God who is close to the brokenhearted; who saves those who spirits are crushed. (Psalms 34:18)

At the darkest times we can remember Matthew 9:22 when a woman reached out to touch Jesus because she believed He was able to heal her and this is what happened: 
Jesus turned and saw her, he said, “Be encouraged, daughter. Your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that time on.

​So is it for us all.

O God of the broken and fragile, help me even when I am too overwhelmed to ask, when I can barely breathe, when my faith is hanging by a thread and I will, through the Spirit of God, cling to You forever with rejoicing. AMEN
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