putting it all out there, where He can be trusted

What if the Lord couldn't identify with our struggles? With our weaknesses? With our pain? 

Every complaint I bring before Him, He answers.

Loving people well is hard, and unappreciated, and doesn't always bring about the change you'd prayed for.

What if we followed a God who didn't already know all that, far better than we did?

Every temptation to despair, to rely on my own understanding, to give up, to lose heart, to grow bitter...every one He understands. Every person who has hurt me or every event that leaves me weary...every injustice in the world and every good reason to worry and every hearty disappointment...He has known and felt and somehow...

somehow it just makes all the difference.

We're not trusting in us, not trusting in others, and not trusting in a god who doesn't get it, a god who doesn't care, or a god who seeks to smite us, but we're taking this whole bundle of all that we cannot control nor understand and trusting it to a God who is after our good and our whole hearts.

I can't imagine making it long any. other. way. 

When I slip or sleep or struggle or fall short, He. does. not.

When others disappoint, discourage, despair, He. does. not.

So?

So keep putting it all out there. Keep giving it all up unto Him, keep loving broken people well, keep forgiving again and again, seventy times seven, keep praying those same many prayers, keep choosing to be used by Him on the painful front lines...because our Lord, He's out there first.  And we can trust Him.