The Compass

Wow... So much has happened this past week. My head is still spinning. I found out Monday that a friend of mine is SURPRISINGLY having twins, Thursday my other friend had her second baby a day early and yesterday a friend of mine lost her baby, she was 5 months along in the pregnancy. She is actually having the baby today.

As I have pondered all these events, I am even more convinced that God is GOD. He gives and he takes away and we feel the blessings and the moments that feel like it couldn't get any worse. Though all this is going on all around us and happening to us, God never changes. He is still good and he is still sovereign. It is in these stretching times that we must grasp on to dear life the TRUTH. Clinging to verses like Romans 5: 3-5, "We rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character and proven character produces hope, This hope does not disappoint, because God's love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us." And when we are reaping the consequences of our sin Romans 5: 20, "But where sin multiplied, grace multiplied even more, so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness, resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." God may have brought heavy loads to each woman in her own right, but he has forsaken none of them, on the contrary, he is bringing each closer to himself and, as the song goes, tenderly breaking each one through their respected blessing/trial. 

My heart hurts and rejoices with each one of these women, but it is all for a purpose, God's good and Perfect purpose. I recently read in a book by Claude Hickman entitled Live Life On Purpose. In it he says, "A map is not always bad, but in the journey God will often lead you where there are no roads. You can't entrust your life to maps. The only way to be sure of your course in life is to trust something greater than the maps-a compass."