Let Your Mercies Fall From Heaven

This song is simple, it is powerful, it is very real to me. Here are the Lyrics to Sweet Mercies by David Ruis  

It's our confession Lord, that we are weak 
So very weak, but You are strong 
And though we've nothing Lord, to lay at your feet 
We come to Your feet and say, Help us along. 
A broken heart and a contrite spirit You have yet to deny 
Your heart of mercy beats with love's strong current 
Let the river flow by your Spirit now, Lord we cry 
Let Your mercies fall from heaven 
Sweet mercies flow from heaven 
New mercies for today 
Shower them down Lord as we pray 
Let Your mercies fall from heaven 
Sweet mercies flow from heaven 
New mercies for today 
Shower them down Lord as we pray

We are so weak right now, but The Lord's strength is all that get's us through. We are on our knees every day asking the Lord to guide us, to give us strength and comfort, to make this easier on us. I don't think there is anyway we would be able to be at work without His strength. The Holy Spirit is living in us and guiding us every day. We cannot deny that. I have this image of The Lord's mercies falling from heaven. I have this image that myself and Matt are on a rock in the middle of a raging ocean and the rock is all there is to keep us from drowning. It is sunny and warm and we are just standing there with our arms lifted to the sky praising Jesus for keeping us on His solid rock.

My Cardiologist emailed me today and said she was impressed by my strength. It is not my strength. It is not our strength. We do not have strength. The only strength we have to even wake up each day is from Jesus and no one else. This is the most painful thing we have ever faced. This is the one thing that we do not want anyone we know to ever have to go through. We cannot sit here and ask God why He is allowing this because we truly recognize what an awful, fallen world we live in, and in this world there will be great pain and we will have broken bodies.

But we know that one day we will meet Jesus and have no more pain and meet our baby. We felt that in the resurrection weekend that Jesus truly bore our pain, he endured our burden, and he carried this for us. We also know that He rose again with great victory and that no matter what happens, no matter what we decide, He has won the battle for us. We have seen some amazing things come out of this, whether it is recognized by others or not. We have seen people in our lives come closer to God, we have seen people pray that don't, we have seen people seek God that did not before. And we have never been so close to God before.

So with that we endure and we are grateful.