Held

● Held ●
Gene跟我分享一首歌 Natalie Grant的"Held"，歌詞的故事說到有個朋友的先生發現癌症，兩個月之後去世，沒有神蹟讓癌症消失、病得醫治，...另一個朋友，禱告很久也試了很多年，終於有了Baby，Baby很健康的長大，但是在Baby 在八個月大的時候在睡眠中過世.......你心碎、傷痛、絕望'、埋怨過嗎? 覺得不公平嗎? 我不知道過去或現在的你有沒有這樣的感受? 但我知到也確信，不論這個傷痛有多大，我的主比這些更大! 不論黑夜有多深，我的主已經勝過這黑暗權勢! 我們的神不會離棄我們，緊緊的抓住我們!

我們和Gene一起去Redeemer的晚崇拜，我們三個又開始一起去Redeemer了，不是要跳槽啦，純粹是想多聽些講道。Tim Keller 說到「the darkness that we have」、「the darkeness that Jesus got」「what Jesus's darkenss means to us」回到家後，Gene 就msn我他在車上聽到的這首歌。This is what it means to be held. How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life. And you survive. This is what it is to be loved. And to know that the promise was when everything fell we'd be held.

以賽亞書 40:11 他必像牧人牧養自己的羊群、 用膀臂聚集羊羔抱在懷中、 慢慢引導那乳養小羊的。

Held by Natalie Grant

Two months is too little. They let him go.
They had no sudden healing.
To think that providence would Take a child from his mother while she prays Is appalling.
Who told us we'd be rescued?
What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares?
We're asking why this happens To us who have died to live?
It's unfair.

Chorus:
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was When everything fell we'd be held.

This hand is bitterness.
We want to taste it, let the hatred numb our sorrow.
The wise hand opens slowly to lilies of the valley and tomorrow.

(Chorus) This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was When everything fell we'd be held.

Bridge:
If hope is born of suffering.
If this is only the beginning.
Can we not wait for one hour watching for our Savior?

(Chorus)
This is what it means to be held.
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive.
This is what it is to be loved.
And to know that the promise was When everything fell we'd be held.