You would have no idea. You would have no idea
that right now I am in one of the hardest seasons of my life, emotionally and sort
of spiritually. The LORD has gifted me with joy, and sometimes, because of
that, my life seems joyful through and through. It’s not.
My inner people, my kindreds, know this. They know
that I just don’t know right now. They know that I am in an overwhelmingly
painful and numbing season, which doesn’t make sense but also makes all the
sense at the same time.
My prayers are short and small and simple.
Because I don’t know how to pray through this. My role, my responsibility, my
identity…
I
just don’t know how.
Through this season, I am learning the immense
truth of His strength versus my own. A lot of times, we diminish God’s strength
into a strength that gets us through busy days without coffee or other trivial
means, but friends, His strength was never meant to replace a cup of coffee, it
is meant to carry you through the trials and burdens of this fallen world; His strength
is meant to replace our weakness. In the moments where we just really don’t know
how to and the moments where we just simply can’t, He knows and He can.
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...His strength was never meant to replace a cup of coffee, it is meant
to carry you through the trials and burdens of this fallen world;
His strength is meant to replace our weakness...
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My prayer for the past weeks has been, “Jesus,
just please.” I may not know how, but He does, and there is power in the name
of Jesus when we call on it.
Jesus, just please for strength.
Jesus, just please for comfort.
Jesus, just please for hope.
Jesus, just please for wisdom.
Jesus, just please.
Let’s remember the strength of Christ, the kind
that bled and died up on His Cross, not the kind that we think we can replace
with a cup of coffee. Let’s remember that when we ask Him to just please, He
will, even if we don’t know what that means.
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