My Deliverer

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and FORGET NOT ALL his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities
Who healeth all thy diseases
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies.
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;  so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.”
                                        - Psalm 103:2-5

It is easy to forget . . .  not only all that God done in my life but to forget from one year to the next how one feels at eight and nine months pregnant.  How can I say what my actual due date is when I don’t know? . . . Although we though maybe the 27th of this month . . .  

But the days stretch on and on each day I wonder if I can handle another one . . .  The nights, you can’t wait for bedtime, yet you dread those too with all the “potty breaks” and turning from side to side to relieve aching hips and then you get up for awhile just to give then both a nice break . . . Morning finally breaks and the children wake and the day begins all over again wondering if this will be the day . . .  And during the day you continue to train children and make meals and “pick up” the house when you feel like doing none of the above . . .

Then you read God’s Word and all these verses of deliverance REALLY start to stand out at you and you with the writer long for deliverance . . . in more ways than one, that words meaning grows deeper and deeper as you wait! . . . And you can’t wait for the Lord God to (Psalm 44:4b) “command deliverances for (Aimee) “

But in the end . . . Weeping may endure for awhile, but joy cometh . . .

“The righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles.”  Psalm 34:17

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous;  but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.”  - Psalm 34:19

There is a price for everything . . .  but like that song says “It will be worth it all when we see Jesus . . . “  All these trials here in this life trying to walk that “straight and narrow way” when so many choose the broad way . . . But it will be worth it!

  It will be worth the discomforts and pain when we see our little one face to face. . .  And I will forget once again all that it took to bring him\her forth.  My joy will be full!

“We went through fire and water;  but Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.”  Psalm 66:12b