Surpassing Understanding

Any tragedy that touches your heart is the hardest thing to pray about. As I started the week praying for the people in Myanmar, then victims of the earthquake in China, for the people in the U.S. who have experienced the devastating tornados, and then finally, prayed for far away friends this week that experienced personal tragedy, words escaped me. So I asked God to read my heart where I could not supply the words, and Philippians 4:7 came to mind:

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:7)

It was a tragedy that surpassed understanding, requiring faith that surpasses understanding.

It’s only the greatness of God’s love for his children, which surpasses understanding, that can hold together the hearts and minds of those who experience such.

“God never abandons His children,
but His purposes are unfathomable,
(they surpass understanding)
and He builds the road with our own steps.”
~Paul Coelho

Many are out there who, facing the day ahead, wonder at the possibility of putting one foot in front of the other. And it surpasses understanding just how it will be possible for them to take that very next step.

Yet step they do,
guarded by the peace of God in Christ Jesus.