Have you ever experienced times when it was a struggle to have faith? Are there times in life when you have a hard time understanding everything that is going on. I think we all experience those times in life. I know that I struggle at times with faith and trying to understand everything that is going on in life. I guess that is just part of being human.
God's Word tells us the importance of faith in our daily lives. In the Book of Hebrews it tells us - "Without faith it is impossible to please God..." I want to please God so I need to live by faith, even when things do not make sense."
Phillip Yancey says, "Faith is trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse." There are just some things that does not make sense when we are going through the situation. Someday the light comes on and we understand why we went through that situation.
People of faith try to look for God's perspective when things come into our lives! When I trust in Him, I will experience His peace in the midst of the storm.
Let us ask God for His Divine Perspective for what is going on in our lives!
Faith, I often can't understand why God calls us to do something, and he does the opposite. I worked 5 years at what God called me to do, then when it was time to move into what he called I was denied. By faith for five years I thanked Him for it, even though I couldn't see it. Now I have no purpose each day, so I wonder why am I still breathing,if I can't for fill what God has called me to do? I still have faith yet, I have one claw hooked to a tall tree and I am hanging there waiting.
ReplyDeleteTo Sherry Ann and everyone who needs encouragement including myself, this is today's Daily Workplace Inspiration devotion.
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By Os Hillman, February 4, 2009
Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble upon this people, and You have not rescued Your people at all. - Exodus 5:23
Have you ever felt like you have been obedient to the Lord for something He called you to do and all you get are more roadblocks? This is the way Moses felt. When Moses went to tell Pharaoh to release the people because God said so, Pharaoh simply got angry and made the people make bricks without straw. Moses caught the blame for this from the people. Moses was just learning what obedience really means in God's Kingdom. You see Moses had not even begun to release plagues upon Egypt. He hadn't even gotten started yet in his calling, and he was complaining about his circumstances. There were many more encounters with Pharaoh to come, and many more plagues with no deliverances in sight. Why would God tell Moses that He is going to deliver them and not do it?
It was all in timing. God never said when He was going to deliver. He just said He would. In the next chapter, we find Moses arguing with God about not being capable of the job God had called him to:
But Moses said to the Lord, "If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?" Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and He commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 6:12-13).
Do you get the feeling God was losing His patience?
God had a good reason for His delays. He said, "And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out My hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it" (Ex. 7:5). God not only wanted the people of Israel but also the Egyptians to know Him. It would be the greatest show of God's power on earth.
God often causes delays in our lives that we cannot understand. Sometimes it seems our obedience is not getting rewarded. Jesus said He learned obedience through the things He suffered (see Heb. 5:8). Imagine that - Jesus having to learn obedience. What does that say for you and me? Sometimes God's delays are simply because He wants more glory in the situation, more recognition, more Christ-likeness in you and me through greater patience and obedience. Faint not, for the promise may yet come.
Sherry Ann sometimes God calls one to plant a seed and another to carry the work forward,Maybe He will call you to go in another direction,or he is waiting for His time to complete what He has stared with you.His ways are so far from ours we get confused.I have had two children born with special needs and many times I have tried to out guess God and try to tell Him what He should do. He doesn't listen,good thing he doesn't or I really would be in a mess. trust Him,and if things fall apart trust Him.If things all seem to go wrong trust Him.No matter where you end up trusting God will always put you exactly where He wants you to be.God Bless Sherry Ann those who read your comment will be praying for you.
ReplyDeleteI am glad to read the comments that have been shared concerning faith in a real life. It is not always easy to have faith, but when we know the One who we place our faith in, it is easier to trust and obey!
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