What are you allowing to fuel your faith in God today? Obedience,
trust, hope, joy or is it, past rebellion, hurtful disappointments, doubt,
worry, bitterness, hard feelings, ingratitude? Maybe you are going through a
tough time right now and have no idea how things will turn out. May I encourage
you today sweet friend, don’t allow your current circumstances to dictate your
future, unless they are bringing you to a place of trusting God in them. Those
things are only meant to try and discourage and destroy you. God’s
understanding in them is that everything works for the good, of those who love
Him according to Romans 8:28, and that what Satan intends for harm in our
lives, God intends for good, according to Genesis 50:20. His plans are for
good; to prosper us and not to harm us as told to us in Jeremiah 29:11.
All
throughout the scriptures God tells us that He works for our good and on our
behalf. Sometimes, we cannot fathom how a bad thing can turn out to be a good
thing, at the time. However, God knows that our suffering produces character in us,
endurance, and perseverance for our future situations, and that is the only
reason that He allows them to come near us. God’s loving and tender hand
can smooth the turbulence that threatens our peace if we will see them from His
perspective and the scars that are created by those turbulent times are only
road maps of where we have been; and the cross roads that we have chosen to
take, as reminders of the right and wrong choices we made.
While our
understanding of our situations may be limited and small and mostly focused on
the moment, remember that God is focused on our eternity. In realizing that,
you may very well encounter the mighty hand of God and understand His purpose
better. You may not can change your situation, but you can absolutely change
your spiritual environment while going through them. Be sure this coming year,
to choose wisely the directions that you will take in how you look at
everything that touches your life. Don’t lose heart, work to see them as God
sees them and fuel your faith with hope and only then will peace slip into
those bear and lonely places to provide you peace as you walk through them!
Loving on you today,
Bren
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