It’s okay. He doesn’t expect me to. He just wants me to believe Him and have faith.
Isaiah 55:8-11, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
I am doing a Bible study based on believing God. There are five things we have had to memorize from the beginning. 1) God is who He says He is. 2) He will do what He says He will do. 3) I am who God says I am. 4) I can do all things through Christ. 5) God’s word is alive and active in me.
There are times when I know all this is true. I know it beyond a shadow of a doubt. There are also times when I don’t know it at all. I so badly want to believe it, but in my self pity and frustration, I choose to be not sure. God knows me. He knows me better than anyone. He knows my strengths and struggles. He made me human. When I get down, when I’m feeling alone, I have learned that it is best to keep saying to myself to trust in God.
It is the hardest time to do it. When you don’t feel it. When you feel alone. These are the times when it not easy, but it is the time when you have to push yourself to press through. Keep calling on His name. Keep telling Him that you feel alone. That you don’t understand. Tell Him that you believe His word. Nothing He has said or sent forth returns empty or void. His words and breath created life in us.
I look at my life and the world around me. From my human eyes, things look pretty hopeless and ugly. The current state of our world and country looks pretty gross. I do not understand all the hate, all the immorality, all the suffering. I do know that it was never God’s plan for us to have to deal with this. He gave us free will and we chose poorly. (Think Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, lol). However, even in our wrong choices and selfishness, He has given us a way out. He makes us clean by the blood of the Lamb. His son, Jesus Christ. He gives us a helper and guide in His Holy Spirit. We are not alone. In our weakness He is made stronger!
I don’t understand it all, but God does and I believe God!
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