"Great is Thy Faithfulness"

I love this song.  How true the words to it are.  "Great is Thy faithfulness, Great is Thy faithfulness!  Morning by morning, new mercies I see!  All I have needed, thy hand hath provided!  Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me!"  I wish I could type the entire song, but it goes on to say our Father's compassion fails not!  God CANNOT fail us!  Here lately in my life and the lives of dear friends, I see the enemy attacking more than ever.  It is like, as I read in one of my mother's devotionals today, you are going along and BAM, out of the blue you seem to hit a wall of obstacles!  One of my best friend's father died.  Another one of my dearest friends brother-in-law is in hospice and her father is in advanced stages of Alzheimers and is not expected to live much longer.  My own precious mother is fighting a battle in her own body.  We found out Monday she has flat lined twice at home!  Each time it lasted a little longer and they are putting a pacemaker in this week.   She  would find this out on her birthday, which is today.  My dear friend's son is graduating from college and has no idea what step he will be taking next.  My own daughter is preparing for a very difficult test that can catapult her into medical school or cause her to have to wait yet another year.  It seems like it all just hit out of the blue and all at once!  When we have done all we know to do, then we stand in faith knowing God is always faithful!  I knew today I would be taking my mother to the cardiologist.  I knew he would tell us what they had been seeing on the monitor they have hooked her up to for a full thirty days to see what her heart is doing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.   I have to be honest with you, my dear reader, this is a very hard time for me.  I love my mother as much as I love my own life!!  I don't know of a mother who has loved her children more than my mother has loved my brother and me!  She has been a constant source of wisdom and comfort to me when times were hard in the past and I didn't know what to do.  She has been my prayer partner, my confidante, my dearest friend!  She has been my rescuer, my example of just exactly what the unconditonal love of God looks like in the flesh!   She has been a pillar of faith, when at times things seemed so hopeless!!  She taught me from a small child the word of God.  I can't always reference the scripture, but I know much of the Bible by heart.  I learned that  literally from listening to my mother informally teaching me.  This is a time, when I think who can I talk to?  So many people are going through such difficulty they don't need my problems dumped all over them as well.  As I thought of what the following day may consist of and how much I needed to be encouraged this song came up in my spirit.  I knew God was bringing it because I had never heard the song all the way through and I knew many of the words I had never heard before.  I looked it up on Youtube and found a rendition by CeCe Winans with her mother.  How appropriate that seemed.  The words were there and I read them as CeCe and her mother sang it.  It described the security we find in our Father God when nothing else in the world makes sense and you aren't sure what you are about to face next.  The one thing you do know is God loves you and He will be there every step of the way!  When I think of the part where it says, "All I have needed thy hand has provided...." I used to think of that in a financial sense.  But, it isn't just in finances.  It is also in needing someone to turn to who can provide all the answers.  It is someone who can extend strength beyond any you knew you could possess.  It is in someone who sticketh closer than a brother.  It is someone who knows the beginning from the end and will never leave us or forsake us!  It is someone who knows our every need, now and forevermore, and will always meet it right on time!!  It is someone who is always waiting for us to call upon Him, and there He is waiting just for us!    It is our Father God!!!  I don't have all the answers to the questions that bombard my mind lately, not only for myself, but for others I know and love, but I know who does and that is more than enough.  His grace is sufficient for you and for me and He is our PEACE!  I know how much my mother wants to walk in fullness of health.  My son graduates May 18 from RHEMA BIBLE INSTITUTE  and the first words out of her mouth to the doctor were, "My grandson is graduating from seminary.  We have to hurry and get this all done.  I want to be there!"  SHE WILL BE THERE!  And, not only then, but when he preaches as well!  My Father God is faithful!!  "Great is thy faithfulness...as thou has been, thou forever will be!"  May God bless you, my dear reader in every facet of your life.  Never forget, you are not alone!