Four Months

Four months. Four months since August 8th. Four months. I don't remember where I got this reading. I found it yesterday when I was cleaning up some papers. It's a photocopy from a page in a book called " Eyes to See." I don't know the author.


" If you are a child of God then you, too, can rest assured that He is authoring every line in the story of your life. He knows the pain & suffering which fills that page in the chapter you are currently living. He understands your desire to flip back the pages of a happier time or to move ahead quickly and even skip this painful chapter altogether. (Did not Jesus also cry out for His Father to remove the bitter cup He was about to drink?) To run from your sufferings, however, will cause you to miss the great comfort & peace God wants to give you and the contentment & character He longs to produce in you right now! Right where you are. Through your suffering, God will reveal life-transforming glimpses of Himself which you will never enjoy except through pain. He's washing your eyes with tears so that you may see more clearly! You may be weeping now but joy awaits you in the morning! And know this: Out of the same pen that is writing your story flows not only wisdom for the writing but rivers of grace for the living. Will you dare to believe?

Would you dare, would you dare to believe

That you still have a reason to sing?

Cause the pain that you've been feeling 

It can't compare to the joy that's coming!

So hold on, you've got to wait for the light.

Press on & just fight the good fight.

Cause the pain that you've been feeling,

It's just the dark before morning.