Blessings

LAURA STORY - "BLESSINGS" LYRICS

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home,
It's not our home

‘Cause what if your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise

I heard this song for the first time a couple of weeks ago on the radio. It was a real eye opener for me. I am so thankful for this song because I really felt like God used it to speak to me. This song is the perfect description of how I (and probably many others) have been acting as a Christian. I think we often want and expect to be comfortable. We want everything to be okay. We want to be happy, to have things go our way. We all have our own plans and think we know what is best for ourselves. But what if we are wrong? I have often gotten angry with God, or at least frustrated because I can't feel Him. I don't feel like He is there or speaking to me. But at the same time I want things to be nice and peachy. I think the point of this song is that these things don't always go together. Often times the hard times are what bring us close to God. The trials that we face are actually blessings because they bring us closer to Him. We can't have our cake and eat it too. Everything can't be perfect and along with that comes closeness to God. God doesn't want us to stay the same. The question is are we, am I, willing to give up comfort and ease in order to become closer to God and become the person He wants us to be. I  pray that I can say, "Yes, God, if a thousand sleepless nights is what it takes, that is acceptable to me because I want to grow closer to you and become the woman of God that You want me to be!"

Proverbs 19:21 "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."

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