Sunday, May 24, 2020

Are you Seeking God or Trying to Figure it Out Yourself?


Have you ever stopped to think about what a small part of the whole we really are? How our problems aren’t exceptionally big in the grand scheme of things, no matter how they seem to us. For me, I’ve been stressing about all these decisions I have to make at work and some of them feel really big…career changing.  I've been praying about them, but without receiving the peace I was expecting.  

This morning, I read the book of Lamentations.  It was a hard book for me to read.  It’s a book about a prophet crying out because his country is suffering and desperate, as a result of her own actions.  What got me in this book, and reflecting on my life right now, is that even when God is angry with us and we are disciplined, there is still love.  God still loves us and hears us when we cry out to Him.  Even when we don’t seek Him first, He’s still there because He loves us.  He’s there in our weakness and He wants to be our strength and provide us answers.  They may not be on our timetable but He is faithful even when we’re not, because that is His nature. 

God wants us to lean on Him in everything and everywhere, no matter the circumstance whether it be big or small.  He wants our surrender and our obedience.  Sometimes, He has to show us who we are, so we acknowledge who He is.  This morning, I finally recognized that I was trying to do God’s job by figuring it all out by myself, as if I ever could, instead of seeking Him and asking Him for the answers.  I was under the impression that this problem was too small to really depend on God to provide the answers - how arrogant. What a waste of time and energy and tears and frustration!  While I realize God won’t do for me what I can do for myself, I can’t do what God can in and through me.  Have you realized the difference?

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