When you look to the sky, who do you think created it and all the stars??

Not only did God create it but he calls the stars by name and keeps track of them so none are lost.

Therefore, AMY (insert your name), how can you say He doesn’t see your troubles?? How can you say God refuses to hear you?

NO ONE can measure the depths of His understanding…God gives power to those, like you Amy, who are tired and worn out. He offers strength to those who are weak….

Those who wait on the Lord, you too Amy, will find NEW strength…You WILL run and not grow weary. You, Amy, will run and not faint.

Isaiah 40:26-31 should be read as personal…put your name in place of mine and feel the encouragement flow.

Thankfulness and trust lead to peace…

The Apostle Paul wrote a letter about that called 2 Corinthians…he wanted the readers, and us, to know the incredible, intense, horrific suffering he had endured in Asia. He says they almost died it was so bad.

Then he says this in 1:9~

But as a result (of that awful, terrible, excruciating time of suffering) we learned not to rely on ourselves but on God.

Is there purpose to your pain?

Many times it seems like a resounding NO.

PUT PURPOSE INTO IT THEN!

Learn something from the experience.

Be changed by it.

Rely on God through it and He can do for you as He did for Paul where you can say but as a result of…I learned to lean on God and not me..

That kind of trust brings peace.