Great Bitterness (correction...Isaiah 38 esv)

I was reading in Isaiah 38 this morning and came across a most interesting verse. It is amazing that we can read the Word for years and there is always something new that pops up that you don't ever remember seeing before. "How unsearchable are His ways!"

Here's the verse:

Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; but in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. For the grave does not thank you; death does not praise you; those who go down to the pit do not hope for your faithfulness. The living, the living, he thanks you, as I do this day; the father makes known to the children your faithfulness. The LORD will save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives, at the house of the LORD.

Isn’t that just an amazing truth? To think, that the great bitterness we have to endure, is always for our good, because of His love. Whenever we become depressed and begin to despair concerning the bitter anguish we have to endure, we have lost sight of His love. God’s love is central to the cross and must be central to how we handle adversity. No matter what we face, we must believe that nothing can separate us from the love of God; and believe that the reason nothing can separate us from His love, is because He simply loves us that much.