Your Frustrations May Suggest That You Are Highly Favored

How often have you wondered if God remembers you? Have you been through those times when though you know that God is with you, because the evidence of His hand upon your life is undeniable, but yet He is silent on issues that mean a lot to you? Those times when though you know He is with you, yet you are frustrated because your life isn’t going the way you thought it would? So you have many questions but no one is able to give you answers that satisfy your spirit. You try to explain the contradictions inside you but you are unable to articulate them; and even if you do, it is hard for people to understand. How can they when God has not explained it to them? 

Luke 2: 19 “but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often.”

There are things that happen in a man’s life, when God’s hand is upon them for a specific purpose that can only be pondered on in one’s heart. Just like the move of the Spirit of God cannot be understood, no other believer can fully grasp it except God explains it to them. They just cannot understand it no matter how hard you try to explain it. They can only interpret what you say in the context of what they know so their suggestions are unable to resolve your dilemma. It takes a believer who has been or is there, to understand where you are at and know that they can’t really help you except God tells them what to do. 

John 3: 8 “Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going…” 

God’s favor on a man can so upturn the man’s life that he wants to hide from everyone. I am not talking about God’s dealings in a life to bring them to maturity; I am talking about favor that makes God choose/call a man for a purpose; upturning or interrupting the life in such a way that they are unable to explain what is going on in their lives. It is interesting how believers want to ask you questions about your life at times like this; questions that you have no answers for so that you want to stay away from them. Yet you can’t; so you have to endure the questions despite the turmoil inside you. 

Of course some such believers only want to remind you that you have outstanding issues in your life. Others have judged you because they think they know you but they don’t. They have no idea what it cost to be you and cannot pay the price you are paying. How can they know you when they don’t see the fears inside despite your faith; nor do they know the depth of pain you ache with and maybe the shame you struggle with on the  inside, despite the joy you have. Do they understand the “aloneness” you feel in those moments when you wrestle with God? Take solace in the fact that it must have happened to Mary when she got pregnant which was also as a result of her finding favor with God.

Luke 1: 30 “Fear not Mary, the angel told her, for you have found favor with God.”

The truth is God’s goodness and favor have ways of expressing themselves in our lives and it is often not in the way we had ordered our lives. The one thing I can assure you of is that God is not unrighteous nor is He wicked. He has His own way of restoring all He appears to have taken from you though not in the way and time you had it all planned out. It will be tough but we must learn to draw strength from Him in those tough times, confident in the fact that His thoughts toward you are thoughts of good.

Psalm 23: 3 “He renews my strength, He guides me along right paths, brining honour to His name.”