No matter how hard life gets and how quiet God seems, He is always listening and working!
TW: talking about how God brought me through my emergency c-section and a NICU stay. I know this can be hard for some to read as they relive their own story so I want to give a heads up just incase.
As I was snuggling my youngest before taking him to bed last night, I was also scrolling Facebook and happened upon a post from another mom. This mom is having a hard time in her faith because she is crying out to God in her time of heartache and feels as if He isn’t listening.
So I went ahead and gave my encouragement to her and shared a scripture from Luke 18:1-8 (I’ll post the whole thing below). But in verses 7 and 8 it says “And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily.Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
Not only does God hears us but will also give us justice!! He is so good and so faithful!!
My friend, as you go about your day I pray that you remember to cry out to God in every situation and know that He is listening and He is working no matter how quiet or distant He may seem.
This past year has been a hard one, well if I’m gonna be real with you the past decade hasn’t been easy. But through all these hardships we have been through I can 100% tell you God has been my strength. He has pulled me (sometimes kicking and screaming) through them and has given me so much to be grateful for even when it has been hard.
As I was replying to this momma on Facebook I kept thinking about the birth of my youngest. His birth was supposed to be another amazing VBAC but my body decided not to corporate and I ended up in an emergency C-section. That was rough but the hardest part was yet to come.
Soon after we came out of recovery and were about to settle in for the remainder of the night a nurse walked in and heard the sound my son was making and whisked him off for tests. Come to find out he wasn’t breathing right and to make a long story short, they didn’t bring him back to me. They ended up having to transfer him to another hospital with a NICU that was able to help him.
During the time they were waiting to transfer him I was crying out to God to please heal him and don’t let them take him away. “Make him well and get him breathing correctly, I know you can do it!!” I begged. I believed! I could have promised you I had the faith of (way more) than a mustard seed. BUT, God had plans that didn’t look like mine.
The NICU stay was hard but thankfully only a few days. I didn’t understand God’s plan, and maybe I still don’t fully. But I can tell you He worked in me and my faith through that time. I’m stronger now, not in just my faith but also in my everyday life knowing with God I can make it through. With God ALL things are possible, and that doesn’t just mean all our big goals are possible. It also means all our hardships are possible to overcome with Him.
So I pray for this momma, and for you, to feel the same love and to never quit relying on God even when life makes no sense and it feels like God isn’t listening. Because He is greater. His plans are better. His love is never ending.
Luke 18:1-8
“And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
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