A pity party for one!

It is so easy for us to sit and have a pity party when hard times come our way especially when we are doing right. We expect blessing for obedience and when we get trials it seems as if we have the right to look up and say, “God, you are supposed to be good’ You are supposed to bless me.” God’s goodness, however, is not limited to our present circumstances.

Remember that ALL things [not just good things] work together for good them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

Don’t let bad attitude, a sin or circumstances of this like allows you to forget the goodness of God. He will always come through. He will always work hard things out of the glory of God in your life. Let the Holy Spirit shine a light on things that will hinder our full service for the Kingdom. Whatever you do, even when you desperately want to, don’t quit

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God has a lesson and a blessing right around the corner.

Think of Nehemiah. He was called according to God’s purpose. He was called by God to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. God allowed him to leave Persia, where he had a servant to the king, travel safely to Jerusalem with the kings permission and supplies to rebuild the WALL! That must have been so reassuring that God was on his side. However, after he railed the people together and they were in the middle of working, the outsiders started to mock him. They were relentless. They told him that he couldn’t do it. He wasn’t smart enough. He wasn’t strong enough. They even threatened to attack the city while they were building Nehemiah could have doubted Gods goodness at that time. He could have thought, “God, you  told me that you would be with me! I’m doing this in obedience and for your name, God. You told me you would bless! You called me here to leave me?

But he didn’t do that. He prayed, trusting that God would just do just as he said he would. He would be with Nehemiah. He would help to finish the work that he started.. Even if hard times came crashing in. He could have quit, but didn’t. He rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem and God’s name was lifted up in revered in that city.. And all the surrounding cities knew the strength of the true God.

The truth is God never said it would be easy, but I have never heard of anyone who regretted not giving up on God!

James 1:2-4 “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”

God is preparing you for something in the midst of your trial. He wants you to reach your full potential, and he does that through testing your faith. Just as exercise tears down muscle to build it back stronger, God uses our (your) hard life situations to tear down our (your) pride, and self-sufficiency, and to build our (your) faith in Him.

When we are patient and trust His hand even we can not see, we can be made little by little into what he has truly created us to be. We can always trust Him to bring us through every trial and every testing that comes our way, and believe me, they will come.

 What is the trial that you are going through? Is it bigger than your calling? Is it bigger that your God? Of course it isn’t? He sees and knows everything. Be encouraged! Every promise of God is true, and even when we don’t understand, hard times will prove God faithful in you simply trust Him.

The fact is at times you are going to want to give up.. Don’t!