A Privilege

There is a song that I love that we sing many Sunday mornings. It says...

"Take me deeper than my feet would ever wander, where my trust is without borders, and I will be made stronger in the presence of my Savior". 

I think it's easy to feel the emotion in this song and to shout it out. But it wasn't until I was struggling with something hard that these words came to mind and suddenly I realized that by making this my prayer, I asked for this struggle. Maybe that's pushing it a little, but the truth is, to go deeper and be in a place where your trust is truly without borders, you have to walk through something challenging. Something that will allow you to say, not by my strength, but Yours God. Something that stretches us beyond where our feet would lead us. 

I guess my point is that God never promised life here on earth would be easy. He never promised we wouldn't have struggles and hardships. But He does promise to walk beside us and to always be faithful. He promises to never abandon us. He cares so deeply about us and desires for us to surrender control and allow Him to carry us, strengthen us, and refine us to come out the other side stronger than before. So maybe walking through a struggle is a privilege. Because it's in that struggle that we will experience God's faithfulness. His goodness. His grace. 

Psalm 46:10-11

"Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations and in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge."