Most, I’m sure, have experienced trying to remove a stain from
your favorite garment, without success. Neither commercial nor home remedies work. As the prophet tells us, no amount of soap and water will dispose of it. In exasperation we cry out, “It just won’t go away!” No more than putting spot remover on a leopard.
There are some things in our lives we simply need to learn to live with. Wishing, self-helps, and yes, even prayer will not do away with these unwanted indelible marks. After fourteen years of prayer for removable of such, God answers Paul, “You’ll need, by my grace, to learn to live with it.”
Anticipation of something God has said won’t happen, is like Sisera’s mother continually looking out the window waiting for her son to return home. He was dead; it just wasn’t going to happen! She, like us, needed to learn to go on with her life along with the hurt. They can co-exist, you know!
“Sorrow and singing are not incompatible.”
(Oswald Sanders)
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