Going Through

Yes, I know you are all about to pass out. What is she thinking? Two posts in one evening. Yes, I am that crazy lady! I'm sure we've all said or heard things like "I'm going through a rough time right now" or "No one knows what I'm going through." The connotation of these phrases is negative. They express the thought that someone is in the middle of a difficult time or is dealing with a difficult situation. We immediately concentrate on the difficult, the negative, the thing that is being dealt with. But if we look at what we are really saying, there is so much hope in that statement. "Going" - infers activity, not standing still, not sitting down, but actively doing something "Through"- in one side and out the other side of, from end to end of When we say we are going through, we are already claiming victory and not defeat. We are stating that we are not going to sit down in the middle of this trial and give up, but we are gonna' come out the other side victorious and stronger than before. We will not die from this, we will not cease to be, we will not be defeated but we will go through. So keep going through, keep holding on and never let go.

Isa 40:28-31 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. NIV