Do you ever feel like you're in the middle of a season or many seasons that all relate to one topic...one giant lesson God is trying to teach you? Can I get an AMEN, sister? I feel I have been in the same lesson for awhile. Oh, and yes I do grasp what that means,but I guess what I haven't grasped is what God means. I can easily get bogged down in the "lessons" and become insecure. But as I've stepped out and looked in and looked back, I see Gods provisions. I see His sweet hands guiding me. But most importantly, I see the spiritual growth that's taking place. Even in my stubbornness and lack of faith, God can change my heart. Praying, spending some good ole quality time with God or an encouraging friend can be just what God uses to make your eyes open to what He is doing and will do. We all are in the midst of a lesson, trial, suffering, or all the above. Sometimes it takes sharing these times with friends for God to get a hold of you or even for you to evaluate where you are in your current situation! It happened to me just this morning. Now, I definitely encourage talking with friends who will show wisdom and discernment. You don't want someone to go to that place with you, you want them to encourage you out of it.
I feel like I've been learning the same lesson for quite some time. Faith. Patience. Perseverance. Over and over and over again. It started almost 9 years ago when I was sitting at church in Austin. Through a sermon, God spoke to me. I knew something about having children was going to be difficult. I felt peace we would, but God clearly was preparing me for a journey that wasn't a fairytale. Lots of waiting. Lots of not trusting God and doing things my way. Lots of heartache. But every time I can look back and see God once again encouraging me and leading me straight to Him. We are in the midst of yet another journey that involves lots of faith and lots of patience. I am a part of BSF and we are studying Moses. It seems to me, God couldn't be any more clear then for me to be studying about the Isrealires journey to the Promise Land. Oh they grumbled and oh they disobeyed and oh they sure tried to do it all without God. I have felt myself wanting to say...Seriously, people get it together. Just shut up and listen to God. Yep, that's when God so kindly reminds me that I do this over and over again. Ugh! Why can't I get it together? Why can't I seem to learn the first time? We are only on the first few days of our wait on that special life changer phone call and I'm already saying to God, "ok please don't make me wait 9 months.... You've already made me wait so long... Oh god please. I can't do it. I don't want to do it. I'm tired of waiting." Yep, guilty guilty guilty. As I was thinking all this through this morning God reminded me of several verses that have been in the study of Moses.
"The Lord will fight for you, you need only to be still." Exodus 14:14
"The Lord your God, who is going before you, will fight for you, as He did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes..." Deut. 1:30
This was definitely God's way of reminding me and encouraging me. If God has you on a journey, He will finish it. You have to trust Him. Faith in His promises. Even when the journey seems never ending or impossible, God will prevail. He's already gone before us and finished the race. Dig deep friends and in your trials look up. Believe in God who is the one and only promise keeper.
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