Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT) 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
Have you ever thought to yourself, if I could just get this together or if I could just stop this, then all would be right with the world? Or, maybe…if someone you know would just do something this way or that way, they wouldn’t have such problems or issues. Sometimes we even think if God would just fix this or change that then we could get our lives in order or at least on the right track. But, how often is that the truth? How often does a particular situation get resolved and yet we still seem to struggle; somehow it didn’t change us the way we thought it would or things the way we wished it had.
The truth of the matter is, more often than not we are relying on our own thoughts and ideas to “fix” our lives and issues. We think up these wonderful plans, steps and easy to do’s to get our lives as well as someone else’s life in order, and even if they do work, most times it’s not a lasting solution or remedy. More often than not our answers are just to fix the problem instead of what we are doing to cause the problem in the first place. We rely too much on our own thoughts and ideas instead of the one who created us; the one who is supposed to be our all in all. So I truly believe that if we would take our problems and situations; in fact our whole lives; to God in prayer then we wouldn’t suffer half as much as we do now.
Psalm 55:22 (NLT) 22 Give your burdens to the Lord, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.
Shortly after we started our prayer board at home, one day my daughter said to me…”mom, do you think I need to slow down because so many of the prayers on the board are mine?” I quickly told her no way…God hears and wants to help with all your prayers. My conversation with her brought me back to an old hymnal that we used to sing when I was growing up, called “What A Friend We Have In Jesus”. The chorus part sings….O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. It occurred to me that my baby has figured out at such a young age, what we as adults still struggle with every day; that the things we battle with, need delivered from or need to change are only truly transformed and healed when we allow God to be at the forefront of our lives.
I don’t doubt that even something we do take to God; we will still sometimes struggle with. However, if we are truly trying to focus on hearing from Him and allowing Him to lead the way…these struggles won’t always be as painful or as long. When we allow God to have His way and follow His will the changes that need to occur are lasting and pure. Now, I also realize that sometimes we take our burdens to Him, then sadly pick them back up again…I’m certainly a living witness to that. It’s then that we must realize that sometimes until we truly let go or turn it over to the Lord; we must wake up and give it back to Him daily. He is a God of faithfulness and when we seek His ways above our own, He will not let us fall.
Proverbs 30:5 (NIV) 5 “Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
No comments:
Post a Comment