H O P E
New year. People are busy making their list of resolutions. They are all hoping and planning for something good. Cuz nobody hope for something bad to happen into their lives for sure. I was planning to do the same tonight. But suddenly i realize that from year to year i always want God’s blessings, always want ONLY for good things to come into my way. I used to forgot that God never promised that I won’t fall ill, i won’t face difficulties, and i will feel happy all the time. I should be more realistic with my hopes… Well hoping for something good is not wrong at all, but I should not expect God to give me ONLY the good things that i want. Sometimes He will let me to experience painful moments, like the things that i have in the mid year 2005. But it doesnt mean that He doesn’t care or doesn’t love me… He always has a good intention, even though its from painful moments that i have to go through. I shouldn’t doubt His ways…
God Hath Not Promised
Words: Annie J. Flint, 1919.
Music: William M. Runyan, 1919.
God hath not promised skies always blue,
Flower strewn pathways all our lives through;
God hath not promised sun without rain,
Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
God hath not promised we shall not know
Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;
He hath not told us we shall not bear
Many a burden, many a care.
God hath not promised smooth roads and wide,
Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;
Never a mountain rocky and steep,
Never a river turbid and deep.
But God hath promised strength for the day,
Rest for the labor, light for the way,
Grace for the trials, help from above,
Unfailing sympathy, undying love.
2 Corinthians 12: 9, 10b.
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” For when I am weak, then I am strong.
