God Sees Mended

Sometimes, I think a God visit is God using us to reach out to others.  He gives us a song, a sentence, a verse, to give out to those who are hurting.  Sometimes He may ask us to give a hug, give a smile, or just listen...we'll feel that prompting to do something to reach out in His name, being the one He uses to ease some heartache.  Not that we can't use those same words or songs ourselves, mind you. Yet they are given to us to be given away.  I feel like that is what today's God visit is about.  

On Sunday, I felt this song come into my heart as we worshiped in church, and knew I was to share it today.  Visit part one.  Last night I read the days devotional from Charles Stanley's "In Touch" magazine and one line popped out, "Be assured that God makes no mistakes in His dealings with us." Visit, part two.  The Holy Spirit has linked these two incidences together to form His message of encouragement for those who are hurting.  

God isn't finished.  God is never accidental or coincidental.  He continues to work, even when all we see is darkness, when all we feel is pain.  And He doesn't leave us abandoned to our own misery.  He sends comfort, He sends His love....like He is doing right now.  

Lord, I know we can't see like You.  To us, things are confused, things are upside down, and beyond what we think is right.  We hurt.  We cry.  We don't understand.  Help us to remember that You are at work.  You do nothing that isn't for our good, nothing that is not out of Your love, nothing that doesn't fit into Your wonderful plan for our lives.  Help us to hold onto these truths beyond our feelings. Lord, please comfort those who are reading this right now, please let them sense Your presence in the hardship, Your love in the dark night of their souls.  You love us.  Thank Your for that.  

Romans 8:28-39
28And we kn w that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.