Tough Times? In God We MUST Trust.

People! These are tough times; and it has nothing to do with whether or not one is a believer and follower of Christ. We are in trying times in the world today. Even nature itself is going through issues. There is climate change and all sorts of things going on – earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis and several other things. It appears to me that all created things must go through challenges. 

As Christians, we often think we should not share in all the difficulties going on around us but the truth is we live in the same world and moreover, we more often than not, do exactly what the unbelievers do yet we think we should be insulated from the things that trouble them. The issues of life do not revolve around only a particular group of people. They afflict us all but the key thing is our response to the issues plus the fact that we have a God that always causes us to triumph.

2 Cor 2: 14 KJV – “Now thanks be unto God, which always always causeth us to triumph in Christ”

Romans 8: 37 NLT– ‘No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.

With the scriptures above at the back of one’s mind, it is easy to see the end of a bad situation through your mind’s eye. The fact that we can see the end gives us some kind of energy and will to go on. The thing I like the most about going through difficulties as a Christian is the fact that God goes through it with us. He is right there comforting and encouraging us to go on. If we only have man to depend on, a lot of people would die while going through these issues because man has the tendency always to fail but God never fails.

Also, apart from using every experience to bring us to a better place, God also uses them to make us better people. In an interesting way, the experiences increase our level of maturity and help us understand the God kind of love. What I like the most is the fact that it helps to increase our level of faith and trust in God so that with every challenge, you know that the God that brought you out of the last challenge will surely deliver you from this present one.

Romans 5: 3 NLT – We can rejoice too when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. And this hope will not lead to disappointment.

I don’t now what experience, challenges or issues, you may be going through as you read, I just know that God can and desires to cause it to work for your good if you allow Him. Don’t try to work out the good yourself because the thoughts and ways of God are far from ours so you may make a big mess in trying to work out the good in your own strength just rest in Him. I am not by any means suggesting that this is easy but I know it is truth. I have been there several times and He has never failed me. PLEASE LET HIM

Romans 8: 28 NLT – “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to His purpose for them”