"He is Mightiest"

"Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." (Psalms 97:10)
There are some days which seem harder to deal with than others, this is one of those days, and I don't really know if I know why. If you were going to tell me 36 years ago that it would be like this, then I might have opted out and said no, choosing to remain free to make my own choices. As far as we can see, the days we are given here should count for something far greater than anything we could have planned for or imagined; and as far as we know, they probably do, we just don't know it. God does not usually forewarn us about the difficulties that are going to take place in our lives, not at lease in the ways we would expect. Jesus does say that there will be trials and persecutions; so as far as that goes, I guess we can assume it's all not a bed of roses. But He did not warn us about wanting to give up; at least not about the part of feeling this heartache and despair. Then again, maybe He did. There were two certain times when it says that the Lord wept, one of which was the time He was going to raise Lazarus, the other was the night before He would lay down His own life. The first time, I believe His tears were the tears of His Father; not that He was the Father, but that He, being the Son, sent by the Father, was experiencing the reason that He was sent. The second time it was personal; He was feeling 33 years of anticipation and wait catching up to Him, all in a single moment; and it actually hurt! Maybe you can't feel it, but it really does hurt; heartache is not just an expression, it's real and it can really take you off of your game. But isn't this why we do what we do...
"And we know that God causes all everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them glory. What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one -for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one -for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God's right hand, pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.") No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God's love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow -not even the powers of hell can separate us from God's love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below -indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:28-39) NLT