”By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.” Proverbs 24.3-4

Sometimes, my heart is deceived into dark thoughts. I think we’ve all been there. Many of us dwell in that place, because it’s comfortable and easy. To resist that heavy aching requires energy, effort, sacrifice. How is it that we can feel the truth and the Power of the Lord in one moment, and in the next, feel absolutely powerless? How is it that we repeatedly surrender to our own desires, when we have the comfort of a truth that reaches far beyond our deepest doubts and fears?

This life isn’t about understanding, or feeling, or achieving. None of these bring full satisfaction. The only understanding we need is that God is an amazingly caring and faithful God who is greater than we can ever imagine.

Who is God? He is the One who created heaven and earth, you and me, my heart and my soul. He created all the days of every year within time itself, and the seasons that bring the cold and the warmth of the sun, He is the One who created and ‘is’, and in His great faithfulness, fulfilled a promise to make us worthy to be His children, even while we were still sinners (Romans 5.8)!

The comfort of this life is that there is One who understands our every thought and feelings far better than we do ourselves. He knows our comings and our goings, our intentions and our habits. There is nowhere we can go where our Creator is not (Psalm 139).

“All my longings lie open before You, O Lord: my sighing is not hidden from You.” (Psalm 38.9)

God understands our desires and our dreams. He knows the whispers of our hearts, because He created the very beat that sustains those hearts.

Who are we to grumble at our situations? When in fact, what we perceive to be hardships may be the very blessings God has given to us because He loves us and wants us to grow in spirituality and maturity (James 1.2).

“Draw near to God and He will draw near to You.” (James 4.8). How simple. How true. How wonderful!