It Only Hurts When...

It Only Hurts When…

I've come to find out in this life that when my feelings have been hurt, it has been because what the person said - “I believed” – what they said.

The promises that God tells us shall be performed – HURT.  They are a blessing to have but they cause cramps and Charlie horses from carrying such a heavy load.

If we didn't believe it, it wouldn't hurt so darn bad… All I hear is Whitney Houston, God rest her soul, singing “Why does it hurt so bad, why do I feel so sad” “You make me wanna Shoop Shoop!” from the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack.

It’s crazy right? We say OK Lord, “I believe you, be it unto me” and then His response is alrighty then… “Wait for it”, “You said that you believe me… Then wait for it”.

And we’re like why? I said that I believe you Lord.

And thus the beginning of the process of having our faith line up with what we said that we believe.

It hurts during all daily activities… Because the promise never leaves you, you are married to it as you are to, because He is the one that placed the promise inside of us.

Thirteen years… which is about the amount of time it took Joseph to go from Prisoner to Prime Minister; it doesn't sound like an extreme amount of time until we observe all that Joseph had gone through, in such a short period of time – the pit, Potiphar’s house and then the prison or the three P’s for short.

365 (days) x 13 (years) is more than I can calculate on these 20 digits of fingers and toes, more than I would like to mark off a calendar, one day at a time; and with no apparent end-date in sight.  And that’s where many of us are… without an end-date to our own personal three P’s situation – in sight…

However, we must know as Joseph, “And the Lord was with Joseph”, and so He is with us.