His hands...OR...HIS FACE

Some days I will admit, I am so "down". I can't blame it on any one thing. I can't blame it on my physical ailments that weigh on me. I can't blame it on my hormones. I can't blame it on others. I can't blame it on my life, my losses, my hurts, my insecurities, my fears. I can't even blame it on anything.

Except...

Well, I can blame it on where my eyes are. Or more aptly spoken, where the eyes of my heart are. Are they looking to the hands of God? Or are they looking to His face?

For a few years now one phrase that has been running circles in my head and heart is, "Seek God's FACE not His hands".

As I look back over my past few years it has been a time in my life filled with very many "let downs". Very many times where my faith has been tested. Where I have prayed, asked and sought Him on my knees through eyes sore with tears. Tears that begged for healing physically. Tears that begged for emotional healing in secret places. Tears that pleaded for a broken brother to be made whole and to find freedom from his battles. Tears that longed for the day to be redone so my sister did not have to suffer the devastation of divorce and neglect and being torn down. Tears that wished for another day, another moment to hold my daughter even if within my womb and whisper the words, "I love you!" again. I could have lost hope and faith a long time ago already if I was only looking to the "answers" and not to The Answer.

 Hebrews 11:1
[ Faith in Action ] Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.

I don't know for sure if this theme is for me or for the ones God lays on my heart in regard to it but the theme also has showed up several times in my heart, in my happenings and in sermons lately about how the nation of Israel waited and believed and hoped for and had faith for things that most of them never even saw come to pass...yet they held on, they believed.

Hebrews 11: 13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. ¹⁴ People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

So, scream it if you must. Whisper if you need to. BUT, no matter what, KNOW IT...YOU are a stranger. I am a stranger. We aren't meant for here! We aren't meant for this life, this broken, hurting, lost, lonely, one frie short of a happy meal life. We're meant for MORE THAN THIS!!!!

2 Corinthians 4:16
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

So, as, Hebrews 10:25, says, "Don't give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching." Let's remember to encourage one another that we are strangers here. Let's walk together through the difficult days and rejoice together through the triumphant days! Let's sing together in the sunshine and cry together in the rain. Let's pray together each time we have chance and let's dance together when we hear the music. Let's be real, take off our shades and let's "love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins." 1st Peter 4:8.

Much love and hope,

Abberdabberdoo :)

~If only every day, every moment, my face gazed upon His~