In Disguise

Today’s song, “Blessings” by Laura Story from her 2011 album “Blessings”

One of the failings that I experience in life is the tendency to forget God and His work in my life when everything is going well. I would think that when the world is sunny and bright that my first response would be to give thanks and rejoice in what God has brought to me. And yes, there are times when that is on my mind. But I regret to admit that it is way too easy to just blindly go forward and enjoy that day with an easy work schedule, the sunny weather, the happy family gathering, and forget He who made it possible.

This blog mostly focuses on the classic Jesus music of the 70s and 80s. Sometimes, however, there is something newer that simply deserves to be played. Today, this song was sung in my church, and it reminded me of how God sometimes talks to me more loudly in my trials than in my successes. It also renewed my faith that no matter how far God may seem to be from me, no matter how deep the pit I may be in, I must remember that He is deeper still.

My feelings don’t dictate the reality of God; He is real and is there constantly, even if I am unaware if Him.

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family
Protection while we sleep

We pray for healing
For prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand
To ease our suffering

And all the while
You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much
To give us lesser things

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?
What if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise?

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger
When we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness
We doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word
Is not enough

And all the while
You hear each desperate plea
But long that we’d have faith
To believe

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?
And what if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise?

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not
This is not our home –
It’s not our home

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops?
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near?

What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst
This world can’t satisfy?

And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise?