THE SCENT OF WATER

(Job 14:7-9) For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Many people have pain. It will be senseless to think that there is no pain. Massive and horrific life experiences have marred the very soul of people. It has tattooed their hearts with bitterness and depression. Hope is no longer a valid alternative and love is a myth for them. To many of these people, the pain has become so deep that it has become a constant part of their routine life and has literally transformed their expectations and dimmed their perspectives. To some it is a complete or partial loss of trust in people, to some it is a complete loss of trust in love and care. Many people have been betrayed, disappointed, slandered and hated by people they trusted, loved and respected. Different people respond and deal with these pains differently. Some keep stocking them up and ignore them till they eventually burst out and break them. Others take the hate and avoid it all routine where they categorize the hurt and disappointment and brand anyone remotely related to their object of hate as a potential culprit. These people develop hate in their hearts and become severely prejudiced.
Some others start to blame themselves and find the shame too difficult to bear and start contemplating ending it all. This is the commonest paths taken by those who are abused by people they respected and even loved. The issue of pain has been debated on for a long time and people start asking themselves where God is? Some say, why would a God of love allow pain to remain on earth? That is a very valid question and I am still trying to understand what He is teaching me. But my mission in your life right now is not the reason pain is in your life, but the way pain can leave your life. God loves you. Regardless of whatever conclusion you have come to, or explanation you have given to your pain, He loves you. He grieves for you and groans over your pain. Jesus endured pain so you would find a way back to God and He wants me to tell you, it is never too late.
Weeping may endure for the night, but Joy comes in the morning. The night is not evening and it has nothing to do with pm. Night is the times of despair and pain and depression in your life. Night is the hopelessness and darkness that torments your soul every minute. Night is when you cried and your pillow was soaked. Night is when you didn’t know where your next meal would come from and you were so scared you will die. Night is when you were sick and thought you wouldn’t make it. Night is when that boy or girl left you and your heart was broken into tiny shards and you thought you could never love or trust anyone ever again. Night is when you failed that paper and you were referred. Night is when you were growing and no man had yet come forward to proposed marriage. Night is when your in-laws came to you home, to scandalize and ridicule you because you couldn’t take seed.
Aaahhhh, but Joy comes with the morning, when the light of the Lord will shine into the deepest part of your soul and clean away the tattoos of pain. When the cleansing light of his love will warm up the coldest reaches of your shattered heart and patch it all up again. When he will hold you up and wipe away you tears. Be of good cheer, for you have found favor in the eyes of the lord. He has promised to anoint you with the oil of gladness and clothe you with a garment of praise. Arise shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the lord has risen upon you. Rise on thou captive daughter of Zion. Arise and gird up thy loins, for the king of glory is mighty in thy affairs. Shake loose the chains of depression, break the bondages of disappointment. Lift up thy head or ye mighty gates, be ye lifted up or ye everlasting doors, let the king of glory enter in.

For He who has started a good thing in you, will accomplish it. Be of a cheerful heart, He has heard your cry and has sent you an answer, even as you prayed. After you have done all you can, just stand and be still, He is God.

God bless you.