When you are faced with a
trial, when things don’t go as you have planed, when you feel like you are
losing hope-what direction will your heart choose? Will you choose your own
way, or His way? Will you go back to the
world or move your trust and faith forward with Jesus. Who or what will you let
guide your heart? Will your soul stay cemented in the Truth, or will you grasp
any worldly thing, to escape, to run, to ignore the pain?
When things don’t go your
way, when nothing seems right, remember its bigger then your circumstance, it’s
larger than your situation. For what truly matters is your response to those situations.
When you feel like things are falling apart do you find company with misery? Do
you throw yourself your own pity party and try to escape into the world? Or do
you thank God that this trial is happening. Not because you enjoy it, but
because you trust Him. That the pain won’t last, that the enemy is a liar, that
your faith can’t be shaken, that God has a far greater plan, that ultimately
God will reclaim what the enemy tires to steal. Staying true to God when things
are hard is a test.
If you always win and are
always right, you never really know where your heart is and where your heart
wanders. The bad times, the shaky times, and the unplanned times become a true
test of our heart; a test that examines where our heart defaults.
For I consider
that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory
that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18
It’s in these times we must
remember God has a beautiful and orchestrated plan for us. And ultimately what
is important is that we trust Him. That we give Him glory through the trial,
because on the other side of the trial blessings will be abundant, increases and growth will occur at a level that is larger then we know.
Blessed is a
man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive
the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
James 1:12
You are fearfully and
wonderfully made
(Psalm 139:14)
Melissa
(Psalm 139:14)
Melissa
