Recently, my husband told me that I should consider focusing my writing on the songs that are nearest and dearest to my soul right now.\u00a0 So, I’ve considered it and I’ve decided to do so.\u00a0 And I’m going to start with a David Crowder song that I haven’t been able to get out of my head the past few weeks.\u00a0 There are two lines in that song that I keep going back to–“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can’t heal” and “Come as you are.” It seems especially appropriate to me to ponder such words as we get ready to transition from one calendar year to another.<\/p>\n
For most if not all of us, our earthly sorrows will not end when 2014 does.\u00a0 There is more than one source of real pain in my own life that I prayed would come to an end this year; with just a couple of days left, however, the pain is still very much there.\u00a0 Does that mean that the lyrics to this song I so love are untrue?\u00a0 Does that mean that Heaven really does have its limits?\u00a0 Well, let’s just say that if I didn’t believe Heaven can heal anything then I’d be an even sadder case than I am on my very worst day down here.<\/p>\n
Heaven really can do anything; it’s just too easy for us to give up on it as the minutes in our day tick away and the pages of our calendar are flipped over again and again–and we continue to see no change at all where we yearn for it the most.\u00a0 We mustn’t give up our hope though and we mustn’t put off coming to Heaven’s throne until we get that change–we must, even with no change at all in sight, come as we truly are. \u00a0Heaven’s our only real hope.\u00a0 It’s our only real hope in this year and in the new year and in any other year.\u00a0 Heaven, personified in Jesus, knows us exactly as we are in our most private moments yet awaits our coming just the same; that is love–that is God.\u00a0 And that trumps any and all earthly sorrows indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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