My blog today is about my God who is faithful. He is big enough to deal with my questions. He is patient enough to let me rant and rave to Him. He is present enough to be there to hear me when I wake several times in the night. He is strong and wise enough to force me to depend on Him for answers. He is sweet enough to surround me with friends and family who smile at me and offer encouraging words when they read my face and eyes and know that my forced smile is fake. He is gracious enough to recognize my issue, which is HUGE in my mind, and make it His........even though He has lots of bigger problems to take care of. He is strict enough to make me wait on Him. To not give me answers immediately but to teach me patience, which is hard for me. He is even good during these times. He blesses me with texts, songs, and scriptures to get me through the waiting time. (Yes, I mean texts on the phone.) Then when I question Him and His perfect plan, He listens. I can feel Him listening. I know that He is listening because He promises me that He is there even in the night when everyone else is sleeping. "I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." Psalms 4:8
Another thing that my God and Father does is that He gives me discernment when I need it. When I say to Him, "Tell me what to say......show me what to do." Guess what.....He does. When that sense of dread settles in and my stomach hurts He sends peace that says "Wait.....I'm still working." I don't know why I ever doubt it. Time and time again He has been faithful. Health scares, financial hardship, always faithful. I could write for hours and days about His faithfulness to me. This is the wonderful thing about being a solid 48 years old. I can look back over years of answered prayer and unanswered prayers and know that I know that I know, that He keeps His promises and that "we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Guess what else my Father does for me. He gives me wisdom.....just because I asked. I specifically remember asking Him for wisdom when I was in college just because the preacher said that if we asked, God promised He would give it. So I thought, what the heck, I'll ask. "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." James 1:5
I think that Satan is cunning and sly. He looks for ways to trip us up. He looks for ways to make us doubt the goodness of our Father. He slams us when we least expect it. He is like an abusive father who picks the times when we are happy and content and feeling full of blessings and he punches us. He knocks us down and hits below the belt. He causes people to throw the "Christian" arrows at us, causing us to question, even for a minute, "Is God really all that He says He is? Does He care? Is He present?" Well I'm here to tell the "doubters" that He is all that He promised He would be. He will never leave or forsake me. I've got so many scriptures that I claim for myself and my family. I continually remind God, "You promised so and so. You said in your word that you would so and so." I'm sure at times He would like to say to me "You of little tiny faith." But he doesn't......He continues to be faithful and good and patient and loving. He is the Alpha and Omega my ever present Help. So of all the scriptures that I will stand on for today here are my two........
"In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation." Psalms 5:3
"Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint." Isaiah 40:30
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