Philippians 4:19 “And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”
“You get what you get, so don’t pitch a fit,” my four-year-old granddaughter told me the other day. I asked her where she had heard that. She told me that is what her teacher tells them at school. My guess is with a room full of three and four year old girls and boys, she is saying that quite often. The difference between three and four year olds and adults is that children will make their unhappiness known. They either cry or stomp their feet, pout or go into a full temper tantrum. As we grow older we have most of the time learned not to throw a temper tantrum, but I am sure we might do a little crying and pouting when we don’t feel like things are going our way.
After we have experienced the death of a child, I feel that is enough pain to last a lifetime. We have done our time in the pain and suffering column. Check that off our list of struggles. We each know that is not the case. Life continues to move on and we will have many more challenges we will be facing. When you put these challenges next to the loss of our child, they can pale in comparison, but life’s struggles cannot be broken down into a single event in our lives. Each thing that happens to us becomes a building block for the next struggle that lies right around the corner. As we witness God’s faithfulness and His meeting our needs (not our wants), we can see that we can face each challenge with the confidence of Him walking with us. If we can survive the loss of our child, then the Lord can get us through whatever we are facing. If you are in the midst of struggles, know He is there watching over you and just like in your past struggles, He will get you through.
Lord, when things do not go our way, let us remember, “We get what we get, so don’t pitch a fit,” or in your loving words, “I know the thoughts I think towards you, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
