Just Hold On

"You ask me how it is that I'm still standing.
You wonder how I made it through the storm.
I can't boast of any special powers.
There's no secret, I just held on.

I held on till the storm was over.
I don't claim to be a hero...I don't have all the answers.
But I held on..till the storm was over.
Not because I'm good, not because I'm great, not because I'm strong....
I just held on.

I can tell that things are finally happening.
I've got blessing I can call my own.
Many times I'd wonder if I could still make it.
But while I was wondering, I was still holding on."


This song was sang in our service last night. It was beautiful and touched many of us in very deep places.

I love it when the Lord does that.

Have you ever been in a storm?  A real weather storm?  I have weathered several hurricanes.  Most of the bad weather seems to come at night. At first, you can eat and hang out in your 'safe place' enjoying a Hurricane Party. After a while it begins to wear on you.  
The wind is so loud.
The trees begin popping.
You hear the thud as things are flung against the outside of the building.
The rain beats the windows.
The wind howls.
You begin praying for your house to be ok, for you cars to not be destroyed.
You pray for safety of everyone.

After a while, you just pray for it to be over.

A teacher from the Plaza Towers school in Oklahoma said that during the tornado, she prayed for her students. She lay across them and screamed, "It's ok.  It's going to be ok. We are going to be alright."

She literally lay across her students in the hallway and was hit by cinder blocks, dirt, rain, hail and eventually a car.

It lasted 7 minutes and she began to just beg for it to be over.

And then it was.


Thus it is with our spiritual battles.

At first, we pray for understanding. We pray for a solution. We pray for healing, our marriage to stay in tack, our loved ones to come to Christ.

Then we just pray it's over.

Just let us all survive.

We will deal with the destruction.

Deal with the heart ache.

Even deal with death, just let the storm be over.

We hold on.

And that's when we find God was there all along.  He picks up the broken pieces. 

He restoreth our soul....when we hold on.