Empty hands can hold so many blessings.

It's hard to let go. It's difficult to allow God to pluck whatever may be in my hand for His seemingly greater good.” It is unbearable to stand empty handed, or what I believe to be empty handed.

If I allow God to take away what is precious and perfect to me will get nothing in return? Yes it may be nothing in return yet it could be what is better for me. Who better to determine my future, the blessings I receive than a sovereign God who ultimately defines what is good and bad? Who better than a righteous, loving God?

Does he not know his own plans? Does He not know what I’ve asked? Does He not know the greater yes? Yet I find myself still wrestling. I’m stuck in a half nelson unwilling to give in to his righteous plans because of my stubborn self will. "Wrestle it out with the sovereignty of God."~ Habakkuk 3:19 Sometimes I even vote NO to his plan, His will. And where does that get me?

Psalm 112: 7 "He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD."
It's not that bad news will never come, but the Psalmist’s heart is secure in God and in the END he will look back in triumphant.

I pray “Father, if it is your will take this cup from me not as I will but as you will.”

Habbakuk 3:16-19
"I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.

17 Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,

18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.

19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to go on the heights. "