Why did that happened?
John 16:33“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
I’ve found that “life” just happens and sadly enough some of it is just not pleasant. I’ve had many great blessings happen in my life but I’ve also had many that were and some still are very heart breaking. I keep waiting for the blessings to start out weighing the heart breaking. I’m not sure that is ever going to happen.
The one thing that I have that so many others don’t is Jesus will overcome this world! And I am part of HIS family. A very important part. Even though Jesus didn’t deserve or understand why those around him acted and felt the way they did, he still loved and went to that cross for them. He still bared that burden of sin in this world. But He knew that His seat was not of this world it was of heaven with His father. I have that same promise. When life happens………. I know where my seat is in heaven.
What am I supposed to learn?
James 1:12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
I used to worry and fret and blame and curse. I would fuss and grumble. I would never look within to see if there was a lesson in that situation for me to learn. But in John 1 it says “blessed is the one who perseveres under trials, having stood the test”. But that doesn’t come naturally to me. Naturally I want to crumble under the pressure and curl up on the couch, eating anything I can find and then going for more. It was not until one day, one trial I looked deep to see what I could learn. And now, with each new trial I look. I search. I ask for His to show me 1 thing I can learn. And you know what………….. He will. It may be a simple lesson. It may be a lesson that I’ve learned before but need a little reinforcement. Or it may be a brand new one. With each new lesson brings a new opportunity to receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised me. This process helps the current trial be easier to bare. I’d be lying if I said that I never worried, grumbled, fussed, blamed or fretted any longer but that me, doesn’t hang around long because the LORD has promised something different to those who love him.
When will your will be shown?
Lamentations 3:25-26 The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
This has to be the hardest step. WAITING WAITING WAITING WAITING I don’t like waiting. Most of society doesn’t like waiting. We have created a microwave world where everything come instantly and like we want it. If the microwave doesn’t do it for me, I can do it myself and not have to depend on anyone else for what I want. But really guys……. this is not reality. Reality is that the BEST THINGS come to those who wait on the Lord. But in that waiting, I also must be quiet and listen for His words. I just recently had another one of those times when I thought I was waiting and then as soon as that “thing” happened that I thought was from the Lord I jumped in with all fours. I just knew it was from Him. Because everything and I do mean every thing seemed so perfect. But I wasn’t listening to the Holy Spirit. You know that knot in the gut that just keeps saying “something ain’t right”. I recognized it but I didn’t listen to it enough to not jump in. Until weeks later when I realized that the serpent had just tricked me into taking a bite of that apple. So this time it was a lesson once learned but I needed to be reminded of. So now, I wait and listen and maybe wait some more.
Where do you want me?
Psalm 37:23 The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;
This one is the hardest to answer but in some ways the easiest. I know that he wants me where I can serve Him with the gifts and talents that he has given to me. Where his glory will be shown to the multitudes with all focus being on him and not on me. So there is my answer, the easy one that is. But the hard one, not so easy to type out. I think before I can fully understand where God wants me, I have to answer the first 3 questions and have them stamped forever in my head and my heart. It’s not until I have seen the trial for what it is and where it came from, until I have searched for the lesson that I need to learn and waited on him to guide me that I will find where HE wants me. So the hard answer is…. I’m still learning.
Rhonda Gould Coaching & Consulting 