When God's Will Aches Your Heart
I haven’t been in a season where tears are constantly lingering in my eyes all day for years. To be specific, since 2019 when my world was shaken — family, church, and camp ministry. I have found myself choking back tears all day, wrestling with the statement “ not my will, but your will God. ” Obviously in this life I have learned that God’s will is best, but how do we battle with the fact that sometimes God’s will breaks your heart for a season? When you so desperately want your desires to align with His plans but you know that the latter of those plans bring extreme grief and brokenness for a while? How do we as believers wrestle with that? My dear reader, how I wish I could say you just simply trust God more today than ever before, but trust is hard. To trust is to be vulnerable. It’s like jumping from great heights knowing that Someone, who has been ever present and faithful, will catch you at the bottom yet still feeling the free fall on your way to His arms — oh, our fallen wor