When you are seeking … for something, anything.
When your ear wants to hear … but the sound is not yet there.
When your eyes are searching the horizon … but nothing appears.
When your heart just knows … knows that there is a message coming, that there is reason why the hair is standing on the back of your neck.
When your soul is … restless.
The experience that something visceral, felt deep within is about to happen.
I learned of a song I hadn’t heard, and sought out it’s story … for every song, every piece of art, every created thing has a story … behind it, within in, for the creator as well as the admirer.
Though the lyrics of the song do not contain these words, this scripture from Lamentations 3:28-30 (Message) was mentioned in the writer’s description of it’s formation:
“When life is heavy and hard to take,
go off by yourself. Enter the silence.
Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions:
Wait for hope to appear.
Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face.
The “worst” is never the worst.”
Within a few short lines, such depth, such good advice, encouragement.
When life is heavy, we often go after advice and help through people, books, podcasts. Yet, this encouragement to enter the silence, to join with God in his silence and not ask why? when? don’t keep searching for answers, but just …
wait.
wait for hope
to appear.
He’s reminding us that he will answer, he will be there … he is there. We just need to bow in prayer, rest in him, wait for the hope that is only available through him.
The waiting has purpose.
The purpose is always hope,
if we wait with him.
Then that final reminder, “the worst is never the worst.”
Hope resides in the reminder that today’s worst is never the worst. Our heavenly father knows the worst, he gave his son up to save us from the worst. Our hope is in him.
The same week that I was seeking, listening, looking and my soul was restless, the same week that this song came to my ears, that that sunrise brightened my view, a friend lovingly shared a message about hope (coincidence? I think not).
If hope is what you are looking for from every fibre of your being, or if you are just restless … check out Hope is too Heavy Sometimes, by Abby Norman.
“I do not believe that we are meant to hope alone. Hope is often a burden best shared.” Abby Norman
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