The Ordainer is the Healer

"Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"

~Job 2:10 (ESV)

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As much as God is the Maker of our humanly-unclimbable mountains, the Creator of the seas that rage around us, and the Ordainer of our trials, He is the Provider of strength to climb, the calmer of the seas, and the Healer of our excruciation.

I WILL LIFT MY EYES
Bebo Norman

God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now
God, be near calm my fear and take my doubt
Your kindness is what pulls me up
Your love is all that draws me in

I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can't climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You

God, my God, let mercy sing
Her melody over me
And God, right here all I bring
Is all of me
Your kindness is what pulls me up
And Your love is all that draws me in


I will lift my eyes to the Maker
of the mountains I can't climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You

'Cause You are and You were and You will be forever
the Lover I need to save me
'Cause You fashioned the earth and You hold it together, God
so hold me now

I will lift my eyes to the Maker
Of the mountains I can't climb
I will lift my eyes to the Calmer
Of the oceans raging wild
I will lift my eyes to the Healer
Of the hurt I hold inside
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You
I will lift my eyes, lift my eyes to You

God, my God, I cry out
Your beloved needs You now

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Daily Thought: Expectations

Here's a self-check: Often, and let's venture to say usually, our recognition and judgement of the apparent sins and shortcomings of others is sadly merely the product of our own self-righteous expectations of that person or group, high standard that lacks room for grace, an outlook and opinion of ourself that is all too high, and/or deep-rooted bitterness. We forget how much grace God, the most harshly offended Party in the universe and the most-gracious forgiver in the universe) has shown us. We fail to remember that indeed we are the greatest of sinners and the most-wretched--and far more than those we erroneously judge.

Has a person or a group of persons offended you? No surprise. People are human, and groups of people increase the weaknesses and possibility of offense. But at the same time, grace is provided to do mighty things through any circumstance, shortcoming, sin, or offense.

How truly amazing the grace of God is!

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Even while reading this excellent book there is the possibility to not pursue peace by accusing others of not keeping it. We've all failed to keep it, and that's why we need this book. Let's get the plank out of our own eye and not worry about the spec in another's eye at the moment. Because when we are humbled and accept human weakness and extend the grace we have received to others, we will be able to speak the truth in love.

Daily Thought: Escape

What do we do in the midst of a battle that is so seemingly unescapable--when the enemy has surrounded the village from all sides and has begun to burn it? The point of an enemy surrounding is to keep that at the center from any direction and means of fleeing and to overwhelm the subject to the point of exhausting all means of fighting.

The battle of the saint in sin is the same, but there is more. The battle of all Christians has this unique hope: In every temptation, He will provide a way out. "No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it" (I Corinthians 10:13).