1“The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”
Hosea 3: 1 NIV
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Why is it hard to trust God at times? Is it because it hurts?
Time and time again there is disappointment in the natural so we stop believing that God can. That He can do miracles, that He can do what He says He will do. Not because of our faithfulness, but because of His. And it hurts to trust Him because it’s hard to deal with the reality of not seeing the desires of our heart come to pass. We stop believing and praying about it because we don’t want to feel the pain when we don’t see it in our hands.
What are we saying to God? I don’t want to step out into the discomfort, I don’t want to weep and cry over it because it hurts too much. So we push it deep down into our hearts so we don’t have to deal with the feeling of disappointment. These are the times when I believe God is saying, be vulnerable with me, tell me exactly how you feel, open up to me, release it to me and then come back and worship me. Praise my name because I AM faithful.
There are times I’ve stuffed these feelings so deep down into my core with the intention that I no longer have to deal with the pain it brings. Is this what God asks me to do? No, he asks me to release it to Him. He asks me to be vulnerable with Him and have expectation that His promises are Yes and Amen. Do I trust Him? Do I actually believe He is faithful?
What is stopping me from believing He is faithful? Is it because my life with other humans has shown me otherwise. We let each other down, we say we will, when we don’t. We make promises that we know we won’t keep. But He does not ask me to compare Him to humans. God is asking me to let go of the old and commit to the new. The new ways of thinking, the new way that God is setting down before me. One on the solid rock.
1 “I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him.“
Psalm 40: 1-3 NIV
And the beautiful thing is, in the waiting, He is still working.
His desire is for spiritual growth. For me and you to look more like Jesus. And the pain and the discomfort is there to strengthen us. The pain and discomfort is so we can turn back to our brothers and sisters and say look at how faithful our God is. That through the miry clay, look at what He has done.
18 Some men came carrying a paralysed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
Luke 5: 18-20 NIV
Who are we apart from you? Set your eyes on the things above and turn back and remember what God has done. Where He has taken us from. And be reminded that He is Faithful.
Nadia x
All for His Glory.
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