Yesterday was Blogger Sunday as my children so "lovingly" say, but Blogger Sunday slipped by and has now turned into Blogger Monday. I love to see what God will bring me to write about each weekend, but I was just a little unsure as to where He wanted me to go on Blogger Sunday..... and thus we come to today!
Maybe I had no real direction yesterday because God was waiting to show me at the very end. David came home and we sat on the couch watching his DVR'd football game. I fell asleep as usual and awoke to David saying "ok lets go to bed". As he took the game off, our TV switched channels and on it comes.....the reason I'm writing this Blog. :)
A man's voice was coming over the airwaves. He was casting off a whole LIST of things we will have rest from if we will only put God first in our life. I stuck my fingers in my ears like a little kid and told David "I DON'T wanna hear him! Turn him OFF!!" David did so and wouldn't you know it he was blaring upstairs in my son's bedroom on his Tv.....with Levi asleep. David opens the door and I told him "I SAID TURN HIM OFF!"
This left me feeling mad and anxious! ! ! My David who usually is there to calm me down, wanted nothing but to go to sleep ...... it was way past his working bedtime. So I was basically left to sort things out myself. As I lay there and feeling anxious of things, I began thinking. You see I know that I put God first in my life in all areas.....He is who I live for. But do I have struggles, worries, fears, doubts, concerns?? YES SIR I DO!! I even struggle with the fact of hearing some guy's voice and it leading me to question IF I'm doing what I'm supposed to in my life to be right with God! That's where I have to learn to turn him/she/they O F F!
But in my Bible, God's Holy Word, it says "In this world you WILL have TROUBLE. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33. Also, it says "A righteous man may have MANY troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all." Psalm 34:19. We see too that David, a man after God's own heart, wrestled with his thoughts and had sorrow in his heart, and had enemies triumphing over him in Psalm 13....but a few verses down we see that he STILL trusts in God's unfailing love and he rejoices remembering how that God has been good to him. And later in Psalm 55 he is seen crying out to God once again in DISTRESS and knows that God will hear him even delivering his from the BATTLES waged against him. (Sorry for all the capital words....just attempting to prove a point a little more vocally.)
So if I'm reading God's Word correctly then it is telling me that yes we will have troubles, we will have fears, we will have battles, we will have struggles! And it is NOT a matter of putting God first in your life or not.
Maybe I had no real direction yesterday because God was waiting to show me at the very end. David came home and we sat on the couch watching his DVR'd football game. I fell asleep as usual and awoke to David saying "ok lets go to bed". As he took the game off, our TV switched channels and on it comes.....the reason I'm writing this Blog. :)
A man's voice was coming over the airwaves. He was casting off a whole LIST of things we will have rest from if we will only put God first in our life. I stuck my fingers in my ears like a little kid and told David "I DON'T wanna hear him! Turn him OFF!!" David did so and wouldn't you know it he was blaring upstairs in my son's bedroom on his Tv.....with Levi asleep. David opens the door and I told him "I SAID TURN HIM OFF!"
This left me feeling mad and anxious! ! ! My David who usually is there to calm me down, wanted nothing but to go to sleep ...... it was way past his working bedtime. So I was basically left to sort things out myself. As I lay there and feeling anxious of things, I began thinking. You see I know that I put God first in my life in all areas.....He is who I live for. But do I have struggles, worries, fears, doubts, concerns?? YES SIR I DO!! I even struggle with the fact of hearing some guy's voice and it leading me to question IF I'm doing what I'm supposed to in my life to be right with God! That's where I have to learn to turn him/she/they O F F!
But in my Bible, God's Holy Word, it says "In this world you WILL have TROUBLE. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33. Also, it says "A righteous man may have MANY troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all." Psalm 34:19. We see too that David, a man after God's own heart, wrestled with his thoughts and had sorrow in his heart, and had enemies triumphing over him in Psalm 13....but a few verses down we see that he STILL trusts in God's unfailing love and he rejoices remembering how that God has been good to him. And later in Psalm 55 he is seen crying out to God once again in DISTRESS and knows that God will hear him even delivering his from the BATTLES waged against him. (Sorry for all the capital words....just attempting to prove a point a little more vocally.)
So if I'm reading God's Word correctly then it is telling me that yes we will have troubles, we will have fears, we will have battles, we will have struggles! And it is NOT a matter of putting God first in your life or not.
Just as sure as I know that we do still have struggles, I also know that just as the verses stated above.....God does deliver and He has made promises of it! But sometimes we must wait. Waiting teaches us far more than we probably ever perceive. For God is always seeking to teach us and train us in the faith life. When we have made our request for God to remove our burden, or give us rest from it shall we say, and He does not do it....what are we to think.....that we have not put God in His rightful place in our life?? NO, rather keep believing God's promise...stand firm on it and never be moved away by what you see or feel. He has promised to deliver the righteous from his troubles and that means ALL. God cannot lie and in Hebrews 6:18 we are assured of that! "God often delays on purpose and the delay is just as much an answer to our prayer as in the fulfillment when it comes." "The fact of looking at the apparent contradiction as to God's Word and being unmoved from your position of faith makes you stronger on every other line." "When God has spoken of his purpose to do, and yet the days go on and He does not do it, that truly is hard; but it is a discipline of faith that will bring us into a knowledge of God which would be otherwise impossible." Psalm 27:14 reminds us to "Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord." And along the same lines of christians having distress in their lives we see that Paul, the great and mighty missionary for God, suffered as well. Do you think he was putting God FIRST in his life? I do!! But just as sure as he expresses his despair of even life itself in 2 Cor. 1:8-10....he assures us that God did, God does, and God will deliver. (vs.10) And even sometimes our struggles that we encounter are so that "We might not rely on ourselves but on God who raises the dead." (vs.9)
So my friends, take heart when you have struggles for it does NOT mean that your life is out of wack with God....it simply means you are human, God loves you, and He will see you through.
So my friends, take heart when you have struggles for it does NOT mean that your life is out of wack with God....it simply means you are human, God loves you, and He will see you through.
Just as the ocean is not always calm....so is life! But we have hope and we have trust in a God who knows and He is in control!
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