The Glory of It All

This song was playing this past Saturday as Shaun and I drove home from the restaurant where we ate for his birthday. It was one of those moments that I had to catch my breath, because I'd just been mulling over in my mind thoughts of "Lord, why is Gabe this way?" and "How could this situation possibly bring glory to You?" In fact, I had just had a conversation with a friend the day before in which I was asking her that very question- "How can this situation possibly bring God glory?" From the "inside," we can see how Gabe's life is bringing glory to God ~ nurses drawing nearer to Him or coming back to Him, people coming into our lives whom we never would have ever met before, changing us and helping us immeasurably, you know, the finger prints of God on our daily lives that sometimes we fail to see..... but from the outside, I don't want people to look at Gabe and say, "Oh, poor Gabe. Look at him. He's not healed. Guess God didn't want to heal that one." Believe me, these are thoughts I have myself. I had them today in fact. Poor Gabe. Sometimes I get so SAD for him. So sad that he's my son and he is laying in bed and can't get up. He can't even go into another room without unplugging and dragging along machines.... pathetic.... what a mess.... A mess I just can't fix, neither can Shaun.

But this song spoke to me (another finger print). And as Shaun and I held hands in the truck, listening to this song play, tears rolling down our cheeks, it was as if God was speaking through the lyrics.... reminding me....

The glory of it all is....
He came here....
For the rescue of us all....
That we may live {in eternity.... with Him}.

This is the glory of it all!!!! The light bulb went off in my head! This has to be my focus.... whether I like it or not, if God never does another single thing for me (although every single day I am blessed; with food, with shelter, with love and family...) He has done ENOUGH. He has made a way for me to enter eternity with Him. He has made a way that Gabe will live in eternity, in a whole and healthy body.... even if it never comes here on Earth. (I still hold out on hope that it may come....)

John 3:16
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

You are the GLORY, Lord! Let us all worship You and serve You for the sacrifice You made.... that we may have everlasting life.