Have you ever asked someone in church, how they’re doing,
and they responded with the usual “I’m blessed and highly favored, I’m doing
just fine” etc, knowing good in well they are in-between blessings, or having a
hard time? Now I know we are people that are very private and somewhat prideful
and we don’t want people knowing our business. After a while that front, that
show that your trying to put on in front of others, is going to get old. You’re
not going to be able to keep up the act, so why not face the facts? (You can
fool us, but you can’t fool God)
Being a Christian doesn’t exempt you from the trials of
life. Being a Christian doesn’t mean you get a pass from having to struggle.
Being a Christian simply means that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your
personal Lord and savior. You believe in the death, the burial and the resurrection.
That doesn’t mean you won’t face issues, so why act as if you don’t have any?
This is not to say you walk around depressed all the time, but it’s not to say
you need to hide it or pretend it’s not there.
At my church we have a class called restoration. It’s a 6
weeks course, and I choose to take it. It talks about healing, and forgiveness
and things of that nature. A lady that I know from my church saw me going into
that class and she said “what are you going there for? You have it all figured
out” While that may have been a compliment to some, it was a reality check for
me. I don’t have it all figured out, that’s why I joined that class. I don’t
ever want to be put on anyone’s pedestal like I have it ALL figured out. This
is a journey that we all need help on. If you have ever gotten to the place
where you think you “have it figured out”, then you’re missing out. No one has
it all figured out, because hopefully you’re
learning ,hopefully you are growing in Christ, hopefully your relationship with
God is getting deeper and deeper and he’s changing you to be more like him.
You would think a class like that would be packed with
people. There is so much hurt in the church that goes untouched because people
want to be perceived like they have it all together, like everything is
alright. Knowing every night they go home and cry themselves to sleep, because
they are trying to take this hurt on by themselves. We can’t fix these things
on our own, because we are barely scratching the surface. God has to go in and
do “open heart surgery” on us to truly fix the problem.
Today my Pastor preached a word that is so relevant to me in
the season I’m in. He preached from Job 23:1-13 “coming out as pure gold”.
Basically saying no matter what path we are on, no matter what path God is
asking us to walk his deliverance is around the corner. Our victory is around
the corner. Often time’s people see other people struggling and think “what sin
did they commit in order to be facing such trials”. That’s not the case. I know
for a lot of the things that happened to me, was not for me, was not because of
me, but because that was the path God asked me to walk. I had to go through something’s
I would’ve never imagined myself going through, because God asked me to. I know
that this life is not about me, but all about the building of God’s kingdom.
God has given me a testimony, for the purpose and the calling he has on my
life, not because I was a horrible person. I’ll never forget when Rev. Jesse
Jackson preached at my church and said “There is power in the blood of the
innocent”. There is power in the testing and the trials of those that are
walking righteous. There is power in the pain and the hurt of those walking
right in the Lord. There is power in testimony of God’s people. Everything isn’t
happening to people because they are getting punished. See we may not always
know the power that we have in Christ, we might not know the threat we pose to
the devil, but he does, so he has to petition to God in order to rile us up. God
allows it, but it doesn’t mean God approves it. Yes God allowed that person to
hurt you, but it doesn’t mean he approves of the pain it caused you. Yes God
allowed innocent people to die, but that doesn’t mean he approves of the
action. “There is power in the blood of the innocent”. (We expect bad things to
happen to bad people, but when bad things happened to good people we lose it.
God has it all in control, and it’s SO much bigger than us, we could never
understand it, that’s why we just have to trust him. Remember what Jesus did on
the cross. An innocent man, that was betrayed, persecuted, lied on etc was
whipped and beaten,and mocked. There is power in the blood of Jesus, Healing in
the blood of Jesus, life in the blood of Jesus, protection in the blood of
Jesus)
When we are going through “rough times” maybe it’s just God
purging us so we can become closer to him, so we can bear the fruit he expects
us to bear. Romans 5:3-5 “ and not only so, but we glory in tribulations also:
knowing that tribulation worketh patience ; and patience, experience; and
experience hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed
abroad in our hearts by The Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
John 15:2 says “every
branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that
beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may being forth more fruit”. I can give
PLENTY examples of how God had to take things out of my life in order for me to
bear the fruit. God had to end certain friendships and relationships in order
for me to bear the proper fruit. Sometimes we are going to go through things,
we are going to lose something’s AND some people, but we will be better for it.
It’s all a process. It’s all so we can come out better than when we went in. It’s
ultimately for the better.
Once we truly
understand that the things we face aren’t about us, and are about God we will
be better off. When we humble ourselves
and understand that we don’t have it all together and we need God for all
things, we’ll be better off. When we understand that in order to come out of something’s
we have to go through something’s. The situations we face may get hard
sometimes, may seem unbearable at times, but we have Jesus. When we understand
the relationship God want’s to have with
us, we’ll know we can cast ALL of our cares on him because be careth for us.
Understand no matter how hard the situation is, God cares, and he loves you!! Don’t
let your situation make you think God doesn’t care or love you because that’s a
lie. He loves us the same as the day he sent Jesus Christ into this world to
save us.
If you love someone tell them
I love you
Destaynee
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