Seeking An Answer

With Heart Stitches we have came across several families suffering from a miscarriage who feel the need to have answers to their grief.  The losses they have felt seep with bitterness and seek for something to bring a temporary healing.  These losses aren’t always in dealing with miscarriage but can also be found in the loss of other loved ones, careers, moving homes, friendships and other life changes.  The search for an answer provides a distraction from fully feeling the weight of grieving their loss.  I recently heard a quote that said “we must be outside out comfort zone in order to find the Comforter.”  Feeling that weight, that pressing hurt would take us there - to the outside, to the place we surrender to the only One Who can Comfort our pain.  But are we able to go there, to take those painful steps outside, one by one, or do we stay seeking what is temporary?

What about the times miracles occur in our lives?  Do we go searching for an answer to those?  Most often we don’t.  Not because we wouldn’t like to know the secret ways of our Great God but because we know we can’t.  In those miracle moments we know He is far too Sovereign, far too God, for us to begin to grasp the makings of His miracles.

How He breathed life into lungs who seemed to be no more.  
How He led the doctors to the source of the pain.  
How He placed life in the womb that could not bear. 
How He brought the lost to Himself.
How He provided when we had none.

Those God-sized miracles we don’t search for answers to, we simply stand back in reverent awe and credit the One who is due.  And we give thanks.

Life-Giver.
Healer.
Creator.
Deliverer.
Provider. 

So is it an answer we seek or is it He who we seek?  Because if it’s an answer, it’s temporary.  But if it is I Am, it is eternal, true and powerful.  God does not bring suffering upon us - that was due to the fall (Genesis 3:1-24) but every single Word of His is True.  If we choose to place our hearts, surrender our hurt, our grief, in His Truth it is there we will find the comfort and peace we desire.

When we find ourselves able to take those steps outside, turning to Him and not away, He doesn’t give us an answer, He gives us Himself.  He is not above weeping with us for the time it takes our aching wounds to heal.  He comes close and He comforts us.  He understands your pain and He aches for your inability to understand any purpose behind that pain just as a parent would for their young child.

He promises to make all things work for good. (Rom. 8:28)
He promises that hope will be brought out of our suffering. (Rom. 5:4)
He promises that His love for us in unfailing and never-changing.  (Ex. 15:13)
He promises to bring comfort to all who mourn. (Is. 61:3)
He promises to turn to those who call on Him. (1 Chron. 16:10-11)
His love and faithfulness conquered death.  (Luke 24:5-6)

Choose to seek Him.

HE is your answer.