When you are made aware of a train track, you know a train is coming but you aren't exactly sure of when. That is how I have felt about my disease my whole life. There would be a time where I didn't give up, but things would be more out of my control. Really, God's always been in control! He just gave me strength for a limited time and a little less than others. I now have more time to focus on His will for me, rather than my own.
This blog is really about accepting God's will for you and not resisting hard against what you've been chosen for.
As TobyMac sings about 'The Promised Land'...
"I won’t give up on this race
Broken but I still have faith
That this old life is all part of a plan
And I can feel it in my soul, one day I’ll stand before the throne
With nothing left but hope in these 2 hands"
Some people might say 'let go and let God' but the Bible contradicts that laid back kind of thinking. The Christian life is a spiritual battle which the Bible exhorts us to prepare for and wage diligently. Letting go, in the sense of sitting back and watching events unfold is not biblical.
2 Timothy 2:3, "Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus."
1 Timothy 6:12, " Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
We must understand that whatever it is that we do, it is by the power of God and not of ourselves. John 15:5 says "that apart from Me you can do nothing." The truth is that working at “letting go” is just as much as an effort-filled work as anything else we try to do for God and not nearly as easy to do as some things. [gotquestions.org]
"Suffering in its simplest form comes in the space between what we thought would be and what is. Life defines us, but suffering redfines us. Ultimately, hope refines us, transforming us from within in ways we could never imagine. We can gain precious wisdom and deeper appreciation for the iives we've ben given as we learn to suffer well--not as victims, but as overcomers.
Some of us have physical wheelchairs, but we all have invisible wheelchairs inside us. None of us can do life by ourselves. We need God, and we need each other." [Suffer Strong]
As for myself, I'm meant to be here now as an example, rather than as a doer. That doesn't mean I do nothing, I just do thru the help of others. I was chosen to suffer in this life, but God has promised crowns of great reward in my near future. I trust the next chapter of my life, because I know the author.