What Is God Bringing Out Of This?

 

God has made me 

  forget all my hardship.....

For God has made me

  fruitful

in the land of my affliction.

           Genesis 41. 51-52

Just because life may be hard

does not mean 

     God has abandoned us,

nor that we are not

  right in the center of His will.

God bears tremendous fruit

             in barren places.

    He always has.

We have only to trust Him,

  be faithful there,

  and get back to work.

God's Presence

             hovers over us.

In due time,

God reveals His purposes

                   in all this.

And the hardships fade

   in light of His glory.

What will God bring out of this?

His redeeming, 

              every time.

O LORD,

Help us to see past our fears

and our tears 

   and this wave of hardships

to what You are doing

  in us and everyone around us.

We can never know

   the full extent of 

   what You are bringing about.

You do not 

    have a singular reason for it,

but You weave eternal purposes

            in it.

Strengthen us!

Make us fruitful

  in this land of our affliction.

Because this situation,

even this,

            is holy ground.