life has been crazy lately and as a result i have pushed aside my time with God for the past few days. partly because i just haven't had time and partly because i'm in a place right now where i know nothing about what comes next in my life - i'm 100% waiting on God, which is good...but hard. and while prb the worst thing to do (and there are no excuses) - i have been putting off my time with Him from a fear of either not hearing Him or hearing something I don't want to.
but yesterday...yesterday i went to the worship service at Edinbrook and God just grabbed a hold of that opportunity and made sure i was paying attention. i finally took a moment to listen and He poured in. we watched a video of a girl's testimony telling how God changed her life - she had to go through some tough times but she trusted Him and God pulled her through...and she got baptized during the service.
it was such an amazing thing! and i didnt realize until that moment how much i needed to be reminded that God is so faithful. that He is working and that He can do anything.
doubt is a powerful thing. and its easy to let it take over - but we have no reason to doubt.
because God is faithful.
i've spent the last 2 days looking back on and remembering all the times God has come through for me...when i've known He was at work. and there are SO many. it is so important to remember those times - especially when doubt tries to work its way in...
trusting in God IS crazy. it shouldnt make sense. it shouldnt work. and yet - somehow it does.
take some time and remember the times He's been there to comfort you, when He's provided for you when you had no idea how you were going to make it, the times you felt like you couldn't go on and yet you somehow found the energy to not only finish what you had to but dominated it and left feeling so strong...
because those times are real. doubt is not. it'll try to make you believe that God can't and won't do the seemingly impossible - but He can and He will. we can't forget that.
He's too good and too faithful.
so i just wanted to share the reminder that God encouraged me with this week.
that He is faithful
even if you don't see Him moving in the moment or if things seem too big for Him to do anything with at the time - He's still there, and He's still got it all in His hands.
I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
phillipians 1:3-6
i thank God for every moment that He has revealed Himself to His children.
and i thank Him for calling us to crazy things - and for being with us to pull us through every single step of the way.
He really loves us. its so amazing.
-ALIVE
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