My heart was so heavy this morning. Look around, it doesn't take much to get that way. So many people are hurting and you want so much to take the hurt away and you can't. Sickness, accidents, struggling marriages and families, struggling churches, it is a self-centered, sin-centered world in which we live. Our focus is on what I have done, what is best for me, what works for me and how others can help to meet my needs.
We have the ability to help. We can give advice, we can listen, we can encourage, and most importantly, we can pray. What is exhausting and discouraging is when you have done all of this and people are still hurting. We grow frustrated. Doesn't God care? Doesn't God want to heal this marriage, grow His church? Then I remember the one other most important thing I can do. TRUST. God has this. As I listened this morning to a song performed by a talented young man who is also a friend, I was reminded. God is all powerful. He can do anything, but He chooses that which is best for us, that which will further His Kingdom. In all of this God wants to draw us nearer to Him. He wants us to put aside our own selfish desires, lay down our own agenda and trust the beautiful, powerful name of Jesus. He gave His life to give us life and we still try to bargain and fuss about not getting our way. He wanted us to be with Him in heaven and made the ultimate sacrifice to get us there and we still act ungrateful.
I thank God that He speaks to us. That in our tough spots He opens our eyes to things that are there but we haven't paid attention to. I am so grateful that He looks down on us and desires to remind us of His love for us, His forgiveness, and His mercy. I am so thankful that He desires to have us as His own, draw us closer to Himself and grow in relationship with us. Today, let's put aside me. Let's put aside my agenda and really take an honest and hard look at what God wants for us.
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