Though He Slay Me

Though he slay me, I will hope in him.

Job 13:15

So we do not lose heart.  Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.  For this light, momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen.  For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16

It would be deceptive to say that this road has been easy.  It would be dishonest to say that it has been a great summer and I'm sad to see it end.  Quite the opposite.  I am coming to a place of peace in being able to say that the past three months have been downright hard, crushing even.  

And yet they have been so very good in the quietest places of my heart.  Good, not because of circumstances, but good because of God's faithfulness and His daily sustaining grace.  Good because when I go to bed with my eyes dry from weeping over wayward hearts, I can wake with renewed hope because His mercies for me and for my children are new every morning.  This would be honest.

I have determined to fill my days with reminders of God's sovereignty and delight in His faithfulness, even as we walk this hard road.  I cling to the reminders that no pain or sorrow or suffering will be wasted.  That there is purpose in my place here today.  This life, these days, these trials are preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.

No, I'm not sad to see summer end, to close this chapter of our journey and begin again with the school year of 2013.  Even more so, I look forward with glorious hope to the things unseen, the eternal things that God is doing for us, even now!

Though You Slay Me

by Shane and Shane

Featuring John Piper