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Sunny Skies Ahead
Looking back over this past year of marriage, my husband and I have had our share of struggles and challenges. It hasn’t been an easy year for us. Things did not work out according to the plan we had made for us.
It took me a few months of going through my own struggles that I realized that I need to simply give all my struggles, doubts, and disappointments to God. My own strength did not help me through the challenges I was facing. One night while doing my devotions I came across this verse: You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in the Lord. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord is the Rock eternal (Isaiah 26:3 &4). I wanted that peace, I was searching everywhere for it.
My husband recently lost his job - another struggle we are facing together. Although we both acknowledged when this first happened that we need to trust that God is leading us somewhere, it was hard at times (and sometimes still is) for us to believe in what we were saying.
2 Corinthians 4:8-10 spoke to John and I – We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not it despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Marriage is not always sunny skies and perfect weather. God tests our faith and challenges us to a higher place. He is with us and for us, not against us. God does not promise us perfect weather in marriage, but He does promise to walk beside us even in difficult times.
God is faithful, through all of life journeys. God is for us.
Are you filled today with God’s peace through life storms?
~Carolyn
