I know the gospel is true. I can't explain why I have such a deep testimony; it is a gift from God. I know that this life is neither the beginning nor the end. I have experienced much heartache and affliction in this life including divorce from the man I love very much, financial losses that caused me to lose my home many times, severe ill health with depression and MS-like symptoms where I was going blind and deaf and losing the ability to function or look after myself, and being on suicide watch over my son who was struggling with depression. But despite, or maybe because of, these things, my testimony of God and His plan for us, His children, has gone deep. Like roots searching for water, my testimony has become deep and strong.
I do not think my times of trial are over but I do know that the Lord is at the helm and whatever He sends into my life is for a wise purpose, even though I often cannot see what it is at the time:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
In our weakness, we come to know the power of the Lord, if we will be humble.
"And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them."
The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge is a beautiful story that has this thread of truth running though it.
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