This Question Just Amazes Me

Often I receive e-mails from people who read my blog and one of the most frequently asked questions they pose is: "How do you keep praising God after all that you have endured?" For me, I cannot imagine doing anything else except to praise Him through the darkest days, the most ferocious life storms. It is a survival technique for me - I cry out to Him in prayer and/or praise when everything around me collapses. God is the one stable, unchanging force in my life. He will never change. He will never forsake me. He alone provides the strength and courage I need for my life challenges. Never will I turn my back on Him.

May the praises of our hearts and the prayers of our souls always be to never give up on God because He won't give up on us. May we never be tempted (by Satan) to curse God and blame Him for difficult experiences. God allows us to pass through the deep waters so that we can better "swim" upstream during all of tomorrow's floods of trials and tribulations.

After catastrophe heaped upon catastrophe for Job, his wife remarked: “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9).

And Job's inspiring remark to her was, "You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips." (Job 2:10).

These reflections uphold my beliefs and the words of this Mercy Me song - good times and bad times will comprise our lives. If we trust God with bringing us to the good times, we can trust Him even more to bring us through the bad times.

Enjoy these lyrics of the Mercy Me song, "Bring the Rain":

I can count a million times
People asking me how I
Can praise You with all that I've gone through
The question just amazes me
Can circumstances possibly
Change who I forever am in You?
Maybe since my life was changed
Long before these rainy days
It's never really ever crossed my mind
To turn my back on you, oh Lord
My only shelter from the storm
But instead I draw closer through these times
So I pray

Bring me joy, bring me peace
Bring the chance to be free
Bring me anything that brings You glory
And I know there'll be days
When this life brings me pain
But if that's what it takes to praise You
Jesus, bring the rain

I am Yours regardless of
The dark clouds that may loom above
Because You are much greater than my pain
You who made a way for me
By suffering Your destiny
So tell me what's a little rain?
So I pray
Holy, holy, holy
Is the Lord God Almighty

To listen to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8HgAVenbUU