joy in sorrow...

I'm feeling really beat down lately. I guess it's to be expected. It's so hard to have hope in the face of adversity. It can be difficult to find. I am hurting for one of my best friends, who's little boy was only with them a few days. For what they, and we, are missing. 




So for lack of a better post... here's some scripture from my heart.


1 Peter 3:15

"But in your heart set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have."

Psalm 73:23-26

 ²³ Yet I am always with you;
       you hold me by my right hand.
 ²⁴ You guide me with your counsel,
       and afterward you will take me into glory.
 ²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but you?
       And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
 ²⁶ My flesh and my heart may fail,
       but God is the strength of my heart
       and my portion forever.

Psalm 6:6-7

 ⁶ I am worn out from groaning;
       all night long I flood my bed with weeping
       and drench my couch with tears.
 ⁷ My eyes grow weak with sorrow;
       they fail because of all my foes.

Job 30:27

 ²⁷ The churning inside me never stops;
       days of suffering confront me.

Isaiah 43

 ¹ But now, this is what the LORD says— 

       he who created you, O Jacob,
       he who formed you, O Israel:
       "Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
       I have summoned you by name; you are mine. ² When you pass through the waters,
       I will be with you;
       and when you pass through the rivers,
       they will not sweep over you.
       When you walk through the fire,
       you will not be burned;
       the flames will not set you ablaze.
 ³ For I am the LORD, your God,
       the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
       I give Egypt for your ransom,
       Cush ^[a] and Seba in your stead.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

 ⁵ As you do not know the path of the wind,
       or how the body is formed ^[a] in a mother's womb,
       so you cannot understand the work of God,
       the Maker of all things.

Psalm 119:49-50 

 ⁴⁹ Remember your word to your servant,
       for you have given me hope. ⁵⁰ My comfort in my suffering is this:
       Your promise preserves my life.




I have hope in my Savior. In the eternal life to come. I struggle in my sorrow and disbelief, but my Lord is always by my side. 




Chelsea