God Is On the Throne -- Grace

So...it's been awhile.  Hey!  :)

Today I wanted to talk about something that I was hit with while washing the dishes earlier this afternoon.

You see, I've been dealing with some stuff lately.  And yeah, it's been hard.  I'm naturally a curious person, and I often wonder different things.  I wonder if there's a lesson I need to learn from this.  I wonder if God hears my prayers, the ones I say when I'm in my deepest bewilderment or feeling my sharpest pain.  Regretfully, I used to wonder if He was even there.  But I know the thing I wonder the most is why I was dealt this trial, and when it will be over, and if He will help me through it.

My trial is that I am lacking in strength.  It's a health problem; among other things, I don't have enough energy to do the things I normally would.  Going to the grocery store feels like walking a mile, while packing a duffel bag for a week at camp feels like running a marathon.  I can sleep for nine hours and wake up feeling like I only slept for maybe two.
 
Well, I'm going away to camp tomorrow, and I'll be gone through Saturday night.  I am terrified that I won't have enough strength to have fun and grow closer to my brothers and sisters and to God.  Just getting ready for it made me extremely tired today (so I'm breaking, taking a chance to write this up).
Anyways, I've been praying about it for awhile.  Today, I was praying about it and washing the dishes.  I had Pandora going on my phone, and had my earbuds in.  I was really jammin' out to the music.  :D

That was when a Phillips, Craig, and Dean song came on.

Of course.  You are God alone.  

The words from the chorus really, really hit me hard...

"You are God alone
From before time began
You were on the throne
You are God alone
And right now,
In the good times and bad,
You are on the throne,
And You are God alone."

It was then I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes.  Last spring, I was able to go to a TobyMac Hits Deep Tour concert (Promise was enthralled - see here).  One of my favorite Christian pop bands, Building 429, was there (AAAAH!!!!).  At one point, one of the members (forgive me for not remembering their names....I just like their music :P ) came out and started talking.  He said some really neat things that I needed to hear that night...and then he said something about our problems, and he said,

"At the end of our trials, at the end of the chaos, the same God Who created the heavens and the earth will still be sitting on the throne."

Then they sang We Won't Be Shaken.

.....Well.  I was like, "Okay.  Okay.  We're good."

:)

I might add that after that, I found one of my very favorite scripture verses -- II Chronicles 20:15.  "Do not be discouraged...the battle is not yours, but God's."