Does it sound familiar? It should! You probably heard it a million and one times growing up, between mom and elementary school teachers, didn't you? Well it really is true, ya know...and it's about time we were honest with ourselves and with Jesus.
Nice segway, right? I thought so too. I am always so blessed to hear the Word of God from the pastor at my home church! And we are all tech savvy and have live streams on Sunday morning so I can watch from Tuscaloosa and you should check it out!
So he was talking this morning about being disappointing with God and not understanding what happens to us. I have touched on this topic several times, I know, but stick with me on this. Job. We've all heard of him. He was disappointed! And I probably would be too if just about everything I knew and loved got ripped from me...oh wait, it did. I'm taking this time to be honest with you in the hopes that you, whoever you are, going through the toughest time in your life will be able to do what it took me way too long to do.
SO first he was super disappointed and he was all like "dad gum it, God, what is going on? Why is everyone against me, and why did people I love leave me just because I'm going through this?" or maybe that's what I said....you get the point. And God was all like "oh, my bad, are you the one that makes the sun come up? Do the lightning bolts answer to you? Does the ocean ebb and flow because of your voice? Oh...I didn't think so, that's me." And so Job was like "oh, right....my bad, I'll stop being such a whiney baby now because you are the One True God who knows everything and are sovereign even in our afflictions."
God is sovereign! Don't you get it?! It gives me completely unspeakable joy to know that even when I have not earthly idea what is going on, that God does! We only see a little picture of what is happening because we are finite creatures. We can only see what is happening here and now. God is simply IN time. We can't see the forest for the tree that's in front of us, but God is in the forest and can see what has happened, what is happening and what will happen. Does that not give you comfort? He KNOWS you're disappointed! We can be honest with other people and ourselves all day long, but once we take it to God we are going to stay in this pit of despair and heartache! I'm sick of despair and heartache! The Holy Spirit that is alive and well in my soul is much happier and encouraging company.
Us seeing God is sort of like looking at the moon. We all know there is a moon. Sometimes we can see all of it, clear as day, sometimes its completely hidden from view, and sometimes we can only see a little sliver of its great magnitude. But the moon doesn't really change, does it? Only our perspective of it changes.
I can't help but be so joyful to know that God IS there and will ALWAYS be there! I was a Job. We've all been a Job at one point or another, haven't we? But what happened to him? Go read it and find out. And then be honest with God. Hand it all over to Him because no matter how hard we try, we can't hide our disappointment in Him from Him.
I feel like I'm being so redundant and I have so many other things to say, it's joy. So much joy. It can't be contained. A huge weight taken off my shoulders. I am free to grow and be in Him because I am not longer in that pit! But beware...Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. He wants you in that pit because that's where you are vulnerable and he is most successful. But that's another post for another day.
Take heart! He has overcome the world!
* Passages that inspired this post were Job 19, 38, 42, Psalm 13 and Isaiah 55*
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