His Answer To My Prayer
I think we can all agree, it is very hard to wait for the answer to your prayer. It is one of the areas that tests our faith. Our God can be a silent God, but he is always listening. Sometimes I forget this. I pray about just about everything. I talk to God silently all throughout the day. He doesn't always answer right away, and in all reality sometimes I just simply don't see the answer, or the answer is not the one I was looking for.
Today however, is one of those times where he answered so immediately and with such clarity. Oh how I praise him.
Yesterday was such a struggle for me. Having such a hard time with my partner as I come to my Lord Jesus, well let's just say it is awful! I feel like there is something trying to keep me from learning more, from reaching the ultimate relationship with God.
This morning I woke up still thinking of the problems of yesterday. Praying the Lord would soften my partners heart at least enough to just support me in the path I am taking. I still just felt so hopeless I was going to cry.
So I did the only thing that I know to do. The only thing that ever helps to calm my heart, to give me peace. I picked up my bible and began trying to see what my God would want me to see right now in this very moment. Maybe I would be able to see his answer here.
Again, with such a faithful God, I did just that! What I learned this morning when I brought my troubles to the Lord was that he loves me. He never said the path to righteousness was an easy one. Quite the contrary, he tells us repeatedly, the path will be wrought with troubles. I mean does it not say in Mark 8:34 that he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."
That is exactly what I feel I am doing daily. I know that I will face challenges as a christian, I just don't want the daily cross I have to bear to be the man I love. That's when he reminds me in Luke 14:26 he says, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even their own life-such a person cannot be my disciple.
He is not telling me to literally hate them, he is simply saying that to be his disciple, which I so long to be, I can't even let any of them keep me from spreading his word. Even though there are people in my life that try to make me take a different path, and don't understand the path I am on, I need to stand firm in his loving grace.
He created me for a purpose, and that purpose is to do his will according to his plan. The plan he created in the beginning. I need to remain in his love, his peace, his faithfulness, his forgiveness until that plan is revealed.
I thank him for showing me this today.I thank him for comforting me once again, for showing me that I am loved and most definitely worth it!
Today however, is one of those times where he answered so immediately and with such clarity. Oh how I praise him.
Yesterday was such a struggle for me. Having such a hard time with my partner as I come to my Lord Jesus, well let's just say it is awful! I feel like there is something trying to keep me from learning more, from reaching the ultimate relationship with God.
This morning I woke up still thinking of the problems of yesterday. Praying the Lord would soften my partners heart at least enough to just support me in the path I am taking. I still just felt so hopeless I was going to cry.
So I did the only thing that I know to do. The only thing that ever helps to calm my heart, to give me peace. I picked up my bible and began trying to see what my God would want me to see right now in this very moment. Maybe I would be able to see his answer here.
Again, with such a faithful God, I did just that! What I learned this morning when I brought my troubles to the Lord was that he loves me. He never said the path to righteousness was an easy one. Quite the contrary, he tells us repeatedly, the path will be wrought with troubles. I mean does it not say in Mark 8:34 that he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me."
That is exactly what I feel I am doing daily. I know that I will face challenges as a christian, I just don't want the daily cross I have to bear to be the man I love. That's when he reminds me in Luke 14:26 he says, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even their own life-such a person cannot be my disciple.
He is not telling me to literally hate them, he is simply saying that to be his disciple, which I so long to be, I can't even let any of them keep me from spreading his word. Even though there are people in my life that try to make me take a different path, and don't understand the path I am on, I need to stand firm in his loving grace.
He created me for a purpose, and that purpose is to do his will according to his plan. The plan he created in the beginning. I need to remain in his love, his peace, his faithfulness, his forgiveness until that plan is revealed.
I thank him for showing me this today.I thank him for comforting me once again, for showing me that I am loved and most definitely worth it!
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