"Exception"

"For in Thee, O LORD, do I hope: Thou wilt hear, O LORD my God." (Psalms 38:15) Finally, something that is not complaining, and is actually a verse of hope and praise; I was beginning to grow weary and lose a little bit of joy, trying to turn all these complaints into something positive. However, isn't that how it is for us, as we earnestly pray for God to deliver us from something causing pain in our lives? We complain about the pain, and we wrestle with our condition, wondering if God is punishing us, growing us, or has just walked away from us; but in all that, one thing remains unchanging, God! We can go through hell and back, and we can spin around in so many different directions, not knowing where we have ended up, but one thing will always remain the same, God does not change! No matter where we are in any situation, and no matter how out of control our lives might appear, we can always go back to square-one, which is to get on our knees before the Father of Lights and let Him strip everything away. I am thinking of a song right now, that goes something like, "Oh, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry, everything to God in prayer"; which is a line from the song, "What a Friend We In Jesus". It is because of what Jesus did on that cross, that we can come before the Father and we can be renewed; we have been given the covering of His blood that allows us to come into the presence of a Holy God, and to have a refreshing that can only come from bathing in His pure light; a light that strips away all of the cares of this world, if not but for a moment, but to give us another perspective, on not only our circumstance, but on our relationship with the God that loves us more than we could ever imagine love to mean, because His love never fails... "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3:14-19)