IF I HADN’T
If I hadn’t felt the rejection
If I hadn’t felt the pain
If I hadn’t felt the stinging blow
I wouldn’t realize Lord why you came
If I hadn’t suffered the heartache
Of not hearing my childrens voice
If I hadn’t missed their words of love
You may not have been my choice
If I hadn’t felt the loneliness
If I hadn’t shed all those tears
If I hadn’t felt so lost Lord
So wretched and full of fear
If I hadn’t felt so empty
With my back against the wall
I may never have known you
I’d be still effected by the fall
I was resenting all those things
That seemed to plague my life
All the heartaches and all the pain
The arguments and strife
Until this day remembering
All the things that you went through
If I hadn’t experienced all my “things”
I may not have come to know you
I could never know the pain Lord
That you felt upon the cross
I could never know Lord
Just how much it cost
It now seems so pitiful
That I cried and wrung my hands
But I know now that I had to feel the pain
So that I would understand
What others may be suffering
So that I could share your name
So that I could tell them
The reason that YOU came!!!!
How many of us are sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves
because of things that have happened in our lives?
Are we feeling angry bitter resentful and unforgiving because of what others have done to us?
I was until today and started to think well why have I been through all those things?
The answer is I was learning a little of how Jesus must have felt.
I was learning to recognise pain in others so that I could lend them a helping hand,
because I knew how it felt in some their circumstances.
I have been through “my things” so that I could help them with their pain.
So that I can share with them what Jesus has done for them and that under his wings there is healing.
So that I can love them because I know how pain feels.
So that I can help them know we need to go through pain so we can understand others pain.
Only today am I myself starting to feel thankful for my life hurts
Only today and I starting to understand why they happened
THANK YOU JESUS!!!!
