How does one
live with crippling circumstances when God does not change them?
Do you know
someone living with unrelenting pain? I do. At times does it seem like they are drowning? Or
their life is in flames? Have you begged God to ease their pain, to take it
away? I have. Did God answer your prayer? God did not answer mine.
The Apostle
Paul pled with God to change his circumstances and God said, "My grace is
sufficient for you." I wonder if Paul audibly heard God’s voice. Or was he
meditating on God's promises? Perhaps this promise that God made to Israel helped Paul
understand the adequacy of God’s presence: When you pass through deep waters, I
will be with you.
When God does
not answer my prayer for someone who is suffering, I find comfort in that
promise, knowing that God’s grace, that is, his presence, is sufficient even during
times of chronic, crippling, unrelenting pain.
In her book
"A Place of Healing, Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain and
God's Sovereignty" Joni Eareckson Tada describes her journey with pain. I
wrote Deep Waters after reading Joni’s book. The song is a music story interweaving
God’s promise and a journey with pain.
A few weeks
after writing the song I had emergency surgery, was in a hospital bed, alone,
in isolation, in pain, unable to sleep, and struggling to breathe. I was in
deep waters. And Deep Waters became my song.
From the album
“This & That – A Little Bit of Everything” this video is scrolling playback
of the song.
Kathy
Kathy
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