Come and listen...

Come and listen, come to the water's edge, all you who know and fear the Lord.
Come and listen, come to the water's edge all you who are thirsty, come.

Let me tell you what He has done for me.
Let me tell you what He has done for me,
He has done for you,
He has done for us.

Come and listen,
come and listen to what He's done.
Come and listen,
come and listen to what He's done.

Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.
Praise our God for He is good.

He has done for me,
He has done for you,
He has done for us.

Come and listen,
come and listen to what He's done.
Come and listen,
come and listen to what He's done.

These words by David Crowder say it so well. One of the things that has brought me so much peace, in most of my life, I'm sure, but specifically in these past few years living up here has been how many people around me are open and willing to share the deep details of their lives with others. They share their struggles, their joys, ways they've seen the Lord work, times they've felt the Lord wasn't there, deep heartaches, everything. There have been so many times that I have been in the midst of a struggle and one of those people in my life has pulled me aside and invited me to come and listen to what He's done in their life. The power of sharing those things is incredible because the temptation for me is to think that I'm all alone in my struggle, that I'm never going to be able to get out of it, that things will never be okay again. But because the people around me have been so open with their lives, I've learned that struggle is so often a mainstay of this life. There will always be points of deep struggle, but they won't last forever. There will be points of deep joy as well. There will be times when the Lord feels so close, and times when it feels like He's nowhere to be found. It's in those times that people come to me and share the truth that what he has done for them, he will do for me. And you know what? He really has. And what he has done for us, he will do for you.