I’ve had the song, “Walk by Faith,” by Jeremy Camp, in my head for the past few days. I’ve known that song for years, we even have the CD, but I have never really thought about it much.
Then a few days ago, the lyrics really hit home:
I will walk by faith even when I cannot see
Because this broken road
Prepares your will for me
We have been going through a really difficult time lately in our family. I am not really at the point that I want to get into the specifics of it, but it has really turned our lives upside down.
I think the worst part about it was that our thinking about the situation was really negative, too. In different ways, we were both, Bob and I, just wishing that we didn’t have to go through this and kind of feeling like we shouldn’t have to.
Then I was listening to this song the other day and it really hit me that this struggle we are facing is doing a lot to prepare us for doing God’s work.
I have been asking God to use us to build His kingdom and I am really beginning to see the ways in which He is preparing us for that mission.
It’s so arrogant to think that we shouldn’t have to go through this. After everything that Jesus did for us, is there any sacrifice too great for us to make on behalf of His kingdom?
I was reading about when Jeremy Camp wrote that song. It was during his honeymoon to his first wife, who died just months later of ovarian cancer.
She reportedly said to him that if she ended up dying from her disease, as long as her death led one person to Christ, it would all be worth it.
Through Jeremy’s music and testimony of faith, I can only imagine how many people her death has led to Christ, not to mention the countless people who have had their faith in Christ strengthened.
It is heart-wrenching to imagine how painful it must have been for him to become a widower at the age of 23, but his testimony reminds me that our lives here on earth are not about us, they are really about building God’s kingdom.
It’s easy to lose sight of that in the midst of all the struggles and pain that we have been enduring.
No matter what challenges I face, if I can lead just one person to Christ through my life, it will all be worth it.
Here is the video of “Walk by Faith” from YouTube.
9:45 am on June 26th, 2007
Sorry to hear about your struggles. And it does sometime seem like it just isn’t fair. I guess for me because I just want it to be all about me, I don’t know. It doesn’t take long when I get in that mode of thinking to really put things back in perspective. Things could be so much worse. And Christ gave so much more for me than I could ever do for Him.
But it is easy to forget.