I had a very special guest today;
one of those I actually love to sit with and just chat. These are some of the people
who visit, deliberately, to spend time with you and are genuinely interested in
sharing your highs and lows as well as share theirs. I am so glad that this visit
was all about a new high that God has given her. I suspect she thinks I was
sleeping, because I was drowsy, but I was wide awake and her story was another
testimonial of God’s goodness. I don’t know what more God needs to do to make
us very assured that He is good and always working to bring us to a good place.
We must begin to credit God with all the credit that He deserves, which satan
would hate because the more credit one gives Him, the more one trusts Him and
moves closer to Him in love. Trust is a must for love, if the bible is correct
as we all know it is, then loving God and trusting Him must go hand in hand. A
relationship not built on trust is already faulty and would end up in the wrong
place.
Psalm 103: 5a “He fills my life with good things.”
Psalm 37: 5 “Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he
will help you.”
So you must know now that I love
her story. She has been born again, loving and trusting God; believing Him for
great things; yet everything that ought to go wrong went wrong. In her own self,
she was dealing with personal weaknesses that threatened to destroy her and
then she had challenges with her spouse and marriage. As if that was not
enough, her family had issues which even included the death of a sibling. It
was indeed a difficult time and she doesn’t know this but I sometimes wondered
how she coped with life and still found the energy to laugh because I know for
certain that laughter in such times, is very costly. No one, but her alone,
knows what it cost for her to laugh. Also, from the little one has learnt about
God, He won’t give you information as to how He will turn everything around so
you are somewhat in the dark. You just go on knowing that “He has your back”
which is really like walking blindly. An unplanned walk you embark on,
seemingly without a destination and your path remains unlit. Every step is a challenge
and/or struggle; yet, bad as it felt when you took the last step, you still
have to take another and several others that you may go forward. No one goes
forward remaining in the same position.
Ecclesiastes 9: 1 & 4 “Even though the actions of godly and wise
people are in God’s hands, no one knows whether God will show them favor. The
same destiny ultimately awaits everyone, whether righteous or wicked, good or
bad…Good people receive the same promise as sinners, and people who make
promises to God are treated like people who don’t… There is only hope for the
living.”
If you have not gotten there, you
will one day: as life goes on. My question is this – what will you do when you
get there i.e. when the challenges come? Some of us are right there now and my
question is – what are you doing? Whether or not you act, you have done
something. Our response to challenges that life throws is a major pointer to where
we are at with God. I hate to say this but everyone will get there one day,
believer or not; when you do, will you “curse God and die” as Job’s wife
counselled him to do or will you stand? I have lived long enough to see a
number of believers go through contrary circumstances and each one responded according
to “the amount of God in them.” Some “go through” when they are young and others
when they are much older but how are you “going through”? The way you come
through kind of determines where you end up. Some, though they came through, have
become bitter and wicked because of these experiences, while some others have
become very cynical about this faith we share. From what we know, I don’t think
the attitude with which we come through will change God or even cause Him to
reconsider His methods and anyway, He already provided strength or grace to help
us come and to do so successfully.
Job 2: 9 “… Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God
and die.”
Romans 15: 13 “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you
completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow
with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.”
I have seen a number of people
lose their salvation for circumstances like this and as a result lost the opportunity
of enjoying benefits God had laid out for them in their future which sadly,
they may never touch. They lost their joy which also activates strength and
everyone needs the strength to stand whilst trusting that He is working things
out as He is indeed. Today, my friend testified; God has completed the work.
The end of it was so quick and much more than she wished for that she is still
reeling from the depth of the love that God showed in working everything the
way He did. The beginning was so slow and the middle too tough; no one would
have thought it would end the way He ended it. It is like a dream to her and so
shall your own story end – just like a dream. It happened to the children of
Israel too, they thought they were dreaming when God turned their captivity
around. However, you have to hold on. You have come too far to truncate everything.
It is too late to turn your back Him. Please be encouraged, God is working it
but you must trust and invest in your relationship with Him.
Hebrews 10: 35 – 37 “So do not throw away tis confident trust in the
Lord. Remember the great reward it bring you! Patient endurance is what you
need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all
that he has promised. For in just a little while, the Coming One will come and
not delay and my righteous ones will live by faith.”
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