The Dreamer: I am writing my Word in your heart

                                              Why am I going through this?!

Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction, for your Word has given me life.

Many years ago, when I was just a newborn babe in Christ, I was going through a very difficult trial. I remember trying to make sense out of it. Why am I going through this? What good can possibly come out of this? I just don't understand! I remember praying to the Lord, asking Him to explain the reason for it. I just can't make any sense out of it, Lord!

Then one night the Lord gave me a dream. I was standing at the very top of a mountain with my hands raised, crying out, Why am I going through this, Lord?! I see no purpose in it! Why?!

It was then I saw the clouds open and I saw a pair of Fatherly-hands holding a tattered bible. They were aged hands, soft, yet full of strength. The bible was open as if it was being read. I realized this was the hands of my heavenly Father, and the bible was His written Word to me. 

Then the Lord spoke to me, "You are going through this difficulty because I am using it to write my Word into your heart. Through your trials and difficulties, I am continuously writing the revelation of my Word upon the tablets of your heart. And one day the Words I have written in your heart will be a deep strength to others. Others will be encouraged and strengthened by these Words.  

Though that was many years ago, I can now look back over the years and see the lessons He wrote in my heart in those difficult times. And so many of those precious truths God has used in my ministry to teach and be a strength to others. 

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves received of God.