“Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.” (Psalm 77:19) Oh, how great it would be if your path, O God, always led around the sea. If life with you meant that we would never experience heartache or chaos or pain or loss. But your path does not lead around the sea, but straight through it. It is only by going through the sea that we are forced to depend on you. You teach us something by taking us through the sea of pain and loss, of sorrow and sadness, that we could learn no other way. Walking through the sea is what you use to form our lives and shape our hearts. It is how you make us more like Jesus, who “learned obedience through what he suffered.” (Hebrews 5:8) So, thank you.
Loss is inevitable in this broken and fallen world. How we deal with that loss is something else altogether. We can live our lives trying to avoid or deny it, or we can face our losses, grieve them, and embrace what God wants to do in us through them. The fact is that we can never arrive at joy by going around sorrow, but only by going through it. It all comes down to trust, really. Do we trust his heart when we cannot see his hand (or, in this case, his footprints)?
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