HIS PERFECT GRACE
My most treasured LORD,
Yesterday, I woke up in much pain. Through this pain I elevated my prayers to You, my LORD,
thinking about and praying for, among other things, those who are sick or disabled and who
also have to live with pain. It was so very difficult to get out of bed, but You, as You do
every single day, helped me out of bed and to my feet. I went to the bathroom and there I
thought about how difficult it was going to be for me to make my own breakfast, and how long
it was going to take, only because my spouse was still at work and was not here to help me.
Oh, the pain was so strong, and I was feeling so lonesome that I started to cry. But what
about those beloved saints who do not have anyone in their lives to help them? What about
those who have to struggle every single day with illness, a disability or particularly
difficult sins and have no earthly help? Who was I crying for, them, me, or both? Oh my
LORD, forever loving and merciful toward Your children, give us all grace andstrength to
deal with these hard trials of life.
I went to the living room and, as I turned on the computer, I thought about how we humans
are in fact eternal beings, destined to live eternally either in heaven or in hell. I
thought about the fact that, no matter how difficult life may be, how rough may suffering
be, wether physical, mental or emotional, those of us who trust Christ have all the hope,
purpose and assurance. We know that You, oh LORD, are true, that Your promises are true.
We have the knowledge of You in the Scriptures, we know what Your purposes are, we know
where we are headed, and we know the reason for our sufferings. What blessings, what joy!
Illness, pain, disability, suffering, all are left behind by Your transcendent truths and
beautiful, unseen realities. On the other hand, humanists, atheists and all those who
reject and hate You only have the notion that this life is all there is, that we are born,
we live, we die and then we go into non-existence. It occurred to me to think that, very
likely, all those people who so angrily lash out against what they perceive as injustice and
who try to change the world by their own efforts, in their heart of hearts may think at some
point that everything they do is just an exercise in futility. After all, why spend so much
energy and effort on what happens in this life if, at the endit means nothing because we die
and go into oblivion? Why should those who oppose You, mighty LORD, care about what happens
to other people, nations and the world if we all just die and leave everything behind? It seems to me that, if this life was all there was, then the thing to do would be to seek only one’s own comfort and pleasures, not thinking about anyone else. LORD, Your
opponents may be better served by living as it is written, “Let us eat, drink and be mery,
for tomorrow we die.” Oh my lovely Father, the condition of those who reject You and Your
Son Jesus is so, so sad.
I took one of my computer keyboards and sat on my chair to bring up the Christian radio
station that I regularly listen to on weekday mornings. The station came up, and I caught
the tail end of Handel’s Messiah, that beautiful composition affirming the power and majesty
of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Then, a man’s voice came on and read the following
passage:
Revelation 21:1 Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first
earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea.
2 Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and
be their God.
4 “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor
sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.”
5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said to me,
“Write, for these words are true and faithful.”
6 And He said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts.
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son.
I would love to think that You, wonderful LORD, moved the station’s program director to air
this very specific passage of Scripture only and exclusively for me, but then I would fall
into the sin of arrogance. Of course I know that the station ministers to the tens of
thousands who listen to it. But then again, the passage that came to my ears could not have
been any more perfect for the precise moment I heard it. There I was dealing with my
morning struggle, and there You were telling me that Jesus the Lamb will make sure that I
reach eternal life, that He is all I need, and that, at the appointed time, He will take
away not only my own, but all of my brothers’ and sisters’ tears and pain and illnesses and
disabilities and sorrows, and we will not know the decay of death. Talk about Your perfect
work, oh LORD! Talk about You giving me this specific morning the specific Bible passage
that I needed at this specific moment in my life!
Needless to say, after hearing these blessed words from the Bible, more tears came to my
eyes, only this time they were the tears of thanksgiving and grattitude. Oh LORD, how Your
words of truth can turn sorrow to joy in an instant! How Your sweet and tender hand can
lessen my pain, both physical and emotional! Almighty God, I was downcast and You lifted me
up. Oh awesome God, and You do this for me even as I am not as faithful as I ought to be.
How undeserved is Your love and faithfulness, gracious LORD. Awesome God, may my daily
confession of sins be acceptable to You through my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who loved
me and gave Himself for me, Amen.
Once my spirit was revived by You, oh LORD, by Your perfect word, which came through that
marvellous tool that is the Internet, and after giving my thanks and confessions to You with my
prayer and my tears, I went to the kitchen to make my breakfast, assured in the fact that I
would be able to prepare it myself, that it would take whatever time it would take, and that
this was, and is, every morning when I am alone, all right. Your mercies, oh LORD, are
limitless, Your grace perfect and infinite. Grant that all my brothers and sisters in all
the Earth come to a full comprehension of this deep knowledge, so that all of them may also
possess all things in You, for the obtaining of comfort and strength minute by minute, day by
day, until the time when our celestial eternity starts.
Your forever dependent child,
Zoraida
Tears are a language God understands.
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