If the time ever comes that you are on
your last ebb, when the world and its blows have laid you low, all the life
from you seemingly extinguished, remember these words about refuelling your
spirit through God in Isaiah 40:29-31.
He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
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.
Many are the times that I feel as though I
am being a pain in God's neck by leaning on him for so many seemingly trivial
matters in my everyday life, but he always smiles that smile that says, nothing
is too small nor too large for the Lord your God. This is what 1 John 5:14 has
to say about asking for help.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we
ask anything according to his will, He hears us.
When you ask
for help, pray just as Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, Luke 22:42,
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet
not my will, but yours be done."
Ask, but
God's will may contain a different scenario than the one you are specifically
praying for. Too often, we think God doesn't hear nor answer our prayers due to
their not being answered in the specific way "we" want them answered.
Always keep in mind that God's will is divinely good. The answer that God gives
to our prayers is always good.
When Jesus finished praying, he was at
peace and secure in the knowledge that God's will would be done regardless of
his wishes and that it was good as God is good. Our reward is not upon this
earth, but in the spirit after this earthly life. We cannot know the reasons
for God's plan nor understand them, but we must trust him because Paul tells us
in Romans 12:2,
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will.
No, my fellow Christian, life is filled with pitfalls.
We, as Christians, must not pray for the trials and tribulations to be removed
from our backs but pray that God will strengthen our backs to carry the loads
he has entrusted us with in order that his will be done. Paul lays it out in
words nobody can mistake in Romans 5:3-5,
...we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that
suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character, and character, hope.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into
our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Yes, rejoice in our trials and
tribulations. We Christians are very different from the remainder of mankind. But
a person should be transformed or changed by his faith in Jesus Christ to be a
physical and spiritual testament to the goodness of our Father, God. If you are
the same as before you gave your life to Jesus Christ in faith, then where is
the evidence of your faith?
Refuel your spiritual tanks and feel the
strength return to your back and the joy return to your spirit for we are
joyful in spirit through our trials and tribulations.
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