Better Than Before

Last year sometime, while traveling down the road in the motor home with my family, I went to the back bedroom, shut the door and began to pray and talk with God. I remember it had been a very dry time, and I was asking God to send a spiritual rain in my life. It seemed as if He had brought me into the midst of a trial, and left me alone. As I tried to understand why God would allow such a thing to happen, He ever so kindly spoke words of love into my spirit, and I began to sing something like this, “All the trials I’ve gone through, have made me close to you, though sometimes I feel empty and alone. But I will hold on to your promise that still rings true, and I’ll come out better than before. Though the valleys are so deep, and the mountains are so steep, and the desert is such dry and barren land. You will hold my hand so I can stand, and come out better than before.”

Yesterday I was setting in the studio, listening to my brother sing these very words that the Lord spoke to me in the midst of that trial. Although I pray that God uses those words to bless someone else along the way, I am encouraged once again by what the Lord spoke to me in the midst of that trial.

Sometimes we forget that God allows us to go through trials simply to make us better than before. He allows this that we can come to know Him in a new deeper way than before. So trials are blessings in disguise, beloved. For a trial is a sure sign that God sees you fit to come nearer to Him. If you are in a trial of faith right now, just hold on to every promise He has for you, and realize if you trust Him… you will come out better than before.