In the Face of Trials..He Knows It All

I was reminded today of what Jesus encountered as he walked this earth. 

When we face trials, hardships, encounter seasons of the unknown we tend to get fearful. We lose sight of who holds our life in his hands. We forget that Jesus, too, walked this earth with hardships. 

Yes, he was perfect and did not sin. But he felt everything we feel. He knows friend. And today I was reminded of that. 

I sit here today, not wanting to do much house chores, because I want to be in His presence. Being filled. Continue being reminded that He holds my life in his hands, whatever it may look like. 

We cannot see our whole life ahead. We are only the one piece of the puzzle while he holds the whole box top seeing our life all laid out. 

I often wonder who else begins to worry, stress, and get filled with anxiety they didn’t even know they had, when they encounter unknown seasons.

I remember the day I had to be flown to a different city, to deliver such a tiny little baby. The hospital I was currently in couldn’t keep my baby due to the equipment they lacked. 

It came down to two choices. I could either be flown with her in my belly, in hopes she would stay while being flown, and have her delivered at the hospital, OR, I could deliver her where I was at and have her flown away from me. 

Of course the doctor did not want that, but he wanted me to have a choice.

I decided to be flown WITH her while she was in my belly in hopes she would wait upon arrival at the new hospital. 

It was scary. I was frightened. I cried as I was being wheeled away from my parents and siblings, not knowing what was to come. I felt so alone, yet I wasn’t. Both my husband and I were afraid, worried, filled with anxiety.

As I delivered her at 29 weeks, they immediately took her away. She didn’t cry right away, it took a little while for her soft cry. I didn’t get to see her or hold her. No skin to skin contact. It tore me to pieces seeing her in a box, being wheeled away from me. 

How can I not see her? What is wrong that I can’t touch her? Why me? What have I done to deserve this? When can I see her? Is she okay? Why didn’t she cry right away? Am I okay? 

Thoughts began flooding my mind as all this was happening. Thoughts I never took captive. Worry and anxiety began arising. 

I think so often when we go through trials in this life, we tend to forget Jesus too, wept. He wept to His father. He hurt too. Yet he showed humility when he went to the Garden of Gethsemane before he was betrayed. He asked our Heavenly Father to take this cup from him. Matthew 26:39.

He felt it all. The same way we do. 

We may not understand why we are going through this certain trial or season, but if we hold tight onto His word, take our thoughts captive, and take them to the cross (2 Corinthians 10:5), He can help us. He gives us strength and peace that nobody else, not even ourselves, can give.Peace that surpasses all understanding in the midst of the unknown.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5.  

“Casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7. 

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11.

Even if we do not know what lies ahead, we can lean on His truth knowing He is a God that can be trusted, a God that never fails us. A God that cares enough to bend down and hear our cares, wipe our every tear, and lift us up out of the despair.

As I delivered her at 29 weeks, they immediately took her away. She didn’t cry right away, it took a little while for her soft cry. I didn’t get to see her or hold her. No skin to skin contact. It tore me to pieces seeing her in a box, being wheeled away from me. 

How can I not see her? What is wrong that I can’t touch her? Why me? What have I done to deserve this? When can I see her? Is she okay? Why didn’t she cry right away? Am I okay? 

Thoughts began flooding my mind as all this was happening. Thoughts I never took captive. Worry and anxiety began arising. 

I think so often when we go through trials in this life, we tend to forget Jesus too, wept. He wept to His father. He hurt too. Yet he showed humility when he went to the Garden of Gethsemane before he was betrayed. He asked our Heavenly Father to take this cup from him. Matthew 26:39.

He felt it all. The same way we do. 

We may not understand why we are going through this certain trial or season, but if we hold tight onto His word, take our thoughts captive, and take them to the cross (2 Corinthians 10:5), He can help us. He gives us strength and peace that nobody else, not even ourselves, can give.Peace that surpasses all understanding in the midst of the unknown.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5.  

“Casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7. 

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11.

Even if we do not know what lies ahead, we can lean on His truth knowing He is a God that can be trusted, a God that never fails us. A God that cares enough to bend down and hear our cares, wipe our every tear, and lift us up out of the despair.

When you’re going through certain seasons, through hardships, lean onto the one that knows it all. The one that knows the pain and knows the suffering, Jesus. Rely on him knowing that he carries you through this and he will bring good out of it.