blessings

Blessings: Laura Story

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home,
It's not our home

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

I've been meditating on this song lately and boy has it convicted me. Here's a few things I walked away with, and hopefully you can too...

1. He loves us so much that He won't give us anything short of what we need
2. How many times do I doubt His unfailing love? How many times do I doubt His forgiveness? How many times do I forget His goodness?  How could I? We have His word at easy access and FULL of promises.
3. He longs that we have faith to believe :)
4. I can look back in life and think of SO many blessings. And to be honest, MOST of them have come with "raindrops," tears, and sleepless nights.

With all of these valuable lessons, I see so much room for improvement. But one step at a time. I realize I can't tackle it all at once.

So today, I pray "Gracious God, I'm willing. I'm willing to suffer. I'm willing to do whatever it takes. I'm willing to be ridiculed. I'm willing to be caught in the storm. Whatever it takes to glorify you Lord. Bring on the sleepless nights, bring on the tears, bring on the trials of life. Whatever it takes to draw me nearer."