*I pray that wherever this finds you, it gives you the encouragement that you need to press forward and not give up.*
We go through struggles every day. Whether it be on the job, our
families, our friends etc... We struggle to get us to dig down deep, to get us
to think about what it is that we need to possibly turn around; Not only with
in us, but with the world around us. Sometimes we struggle because we need to struggle.
If life stayed good, we wouldn't learn about who we are because we wouldn't
take the time out to stop and spend time with God getting to know HIM.
He uses our struggles to teach us to place our cares on HIM. In Matthew
11:28, Jesus tells us to rest in him when we are weary. To lay all of our
burdens on him... How do we learn to do this if we aren’t forced too? I don’t
know about you, but I don’t remember ever doing it naturally…. It was through struggling
that I began to depend on God more and more than depending on my own
understanding of things.... It was through struggling that I am learning that God
knows our potential and that HE wants us to live up to it 100%. It is through
struggling where we learn that we are stronger than we thought.
So let us rejoice because God never puts anything on us that we
cannot handle and once HE knows we can be trusted with the little things, he
will start to move us into where HE needs us to be and give us more. Think
about it, how can you be given more if you are not a steward over less?
Trust in the
LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all
thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine
own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.... Proverbs 3:5-7
