Life is so unexpected. Just when you feel your on the verge of getting started with your purpose and you’re feeling great about all the possibilities and BAM, something comes along to smack you in the face. There is a trick to being able to stand against the BAMs of life and that is God.
Unfortunately, there is no “real” silver lining in life, but from my experiences with God, I can stand firm that “this too shall pass.” Nothing lasts forever and tomorrow will come.
Sometimes things come to rattle our whole world. I just read a Facebook post that a man lost his wife and newborn baby in a tragic situation. I am assuming it was through child-birth, but the post didn’t really say and they didn’t really have to, after all it was a tragic loss no matter how it happened. It is in those times that you ask yourself; “how in the world will he get through that?” We ask ourselves all kinds of questions trying to figure out the reason. How will he cope with the loss and raise his 2-year-old son in the midst of his grieving? There is an old hymn that says: “we’ll understand it better by and by” and sometimes this hymn gives me hope that one day we can find out just what happened. God can explain the full picture of what we can’t see.
Nevertheless, the BAMs of life can leave us numb and full of pain. What do we do, how will we survive? For me it is by the faith in God that He has my heart in His hand and that He will be the one to come along side of me and comfort me. Sure sometimes you doubt, sometimes we even question God, that is a part of our human nature. I find if I don’t have hope in God, then I don’t have any hope at all and that my friends is an awful life to live.
So as I ponder my own BAMs, I can remember that God says that “I will not be utterly cast down.” I may trip and fall, I may even be laid out prostrate under the weight of the BAMs that come to kill me, but I remember the word of God tells me that “no weapon formed against me shall prosper!” And to that I hold on to in the midst of the BAMs that come my way.
What gets you through the BAMs of your life?
The Butterfly Journey – Lisa
