{"id":813,"date":"2012-05-03T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etheriedge.wordpress.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T23:09:24","slug":"can-and-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/03\/can-and-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Can and Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David has another surgery this summer. Double Inguinal Hernias with mesh! After all the stuff with his colon cancer: hospital stays and unexpected procedures the last two years, we can&#8217;t believe another thing is left to go through.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is something to knowing and believing your father <em>will<\/em> take care of you. My dad has always been a good provider and I&#8217;ve never questioned if He would supply any need I had. I think this is why I&#8217;ve never doubted God would also &#8230; yet never felt so hurt when He didn&#8217;t. Sometimes His timing has seemed <em>off<\/em> to me and I&#8217;ve cried, until I realized He <em>always<\/em> has a reason in His delay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There&#8217;s a children&#8217;s song we sung at Awana&#8217;s, <em>&#8220;My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there&#8217;s nothing my God can not do for you.&#8221; <\/em>Yet, <em><strong>who can know the mind of God, except the Spirit of God<\/strong><\/em>. And how can we ever assume or predict precisely what&#8217;s up His sleeve? Peace comes with contentment. When we trust to stay put, let it all go, and fall back into His everlasting arms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally getting David&#8217;s business running well again, paying off medical bills, and our oldest daughter graduating high school. Another surgery, more medical bills now? It&#8217;s so hard to <em>rest<\/em>, hard to wait, hard to trust once again. Yet I have assurance He is working on our behalf and for our good.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know that &#8211; <em>He will, He will, He will<\/em>&#8211; somehow. Had we not walked through the fire and the flood already, and had I not felt His hands hold me again and again, I may not grasp this amazing <em>blessed assurance <\/em>with all my heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Blessed and enviably happy <\/em><\/strong><em>[with a happiness produced by the experience of God&#8217;s favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace]<\/em><strong><em> are those who mourn, \u00a0for they shall be comforted!<\/em><\/strong>\u201d Matthew 5:4<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No matter the <em>mourning, <\/em>I can not be\u00a0depressed<i>,\u00a0<\/i>for I am too\u00a0comforted and know in my soul He is working for our good.<\/p>\n<p>ForGlorySake! -Anna<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?resize=640%2C853&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?resize=1568%2C2091&amp;ssl=1 1568w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/img0206.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David has another surgery this summer. 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