“Though you have allowed me to see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again.”
Some translations say, “you have made me see troubles”. I marvel at this. On one hand you allow me to see trouble, yet on the other, it’s you who made me walk through it. With that still, you are the one who walks me through it to restore my life once again.
I love that about you! Each one of your promises is for hope. While calamity comes, there is hope. It’s not just hope that the darkness may end, but that I will be restored. Healing will come. I will stand on the other side a better servant unto you. Though sin brings havoc and though destruction is inevitable in my life, you will save and restore me from the brokenness caused by my own fallen nature. And though I have walked the loneliest road and have been abandoned by the one I thought closest to me, you have not only walked with me, but you have restored life to me. Further, your promises are for even greater things of you. You have given me dreams and visions of those promises!
May the path behind teach me about the path ahead. For you have been faithful. You will be faithful. I can rest in fact that, “Though you will allow me again to see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again.”