Tuesday blues
I wrote the other day about taking stock of my life. I listed some realities and some of those became painfully obvious the past week or so.
Today's Our Daily Bread devotional was like having salt poured into an open wound. It hurt. It hit me right where I am because it's something I failed at, got a second chance at, and now have to let go of for a season.
Sometimes when you follow God, you get hurt. Over the past month, there have been a number of hurts, failures, and setbacks. It's those things that caused me to look at the realities of my life. Faith walks hand in hand with reality; they don't exist on different planes. Here's what I mean by that...
My back hurts. I have every confidence that the One who created me is capable of healing me. I am still seeing a doctor and a physical therapist. Faith tells me God can. Reality tells me that He's gonna use something other than Divine intervention to get the job done.
Sometimes faith flies in the face of reality. Then we get miracles. I could use one. I desperately want one. What I got was hurt.
That's the reality.
Today.
One of the realities I wrote about is that God is with me. He is. I'm by no means defeated. Sometimes though you have to let go of things and let God be God. I could easily add this statement to my list of realities: There is a God. I'm not Him.
God is here and I talked to Him about hurting me. I've been hurt a lot lately, and as a believer I know that nothing comes to me without God's causing or allowing it. It's just the way it is because God is sovereign. He's also too big for me to understand completely.
I found this about the pain God allows in our lives. It's a take on a quote by AW Tozer, and it most certainly applies to me today. Click through to read it. It's short and you won't be sorry you did.
https://www.crossway.org/blog/2010/02/must-we-be-hurt-deeply-to-be-used-significantly/
God is. And He's here. And I trust Him.
Partly because I have to. But mostly because Iwant, no NEED to.
Today's Our Daily Bread devotional was like having salt poured into an open wound. It hurt. It hit me right where I am because it's something I failed at, got a second chance at, and now have to let go of for a season.
Sometimes when you follow God, you get hurt. Over the past month, there have been a number of hurts, failures, and setbacks. It's those things that caused me to look at the realities of my life. Faith walks hand in hand with reality; they don't exist on different planes. Here's what I mean by that...
My back hurts. I have every confidence that the One who created me is capable of healing me. I am still seeing a doctor and a physical therapist. Faith tells me God can. Reality tells me that He's gonna use something other than Divine intervention to get the job done.
Sometimes faith flies in the face of reality. Then we get miracles. I could use one. I desperately want one. What I got was hurt.
That's the reality.
Today.
One of the realities I wrote about is that God is with me. He is. I'm by no means defeated. Sometimes though you have to let go of things and let God be God. I could easily add this statement to my list of realities: There is a God. I'm not Him.
God is here and I talked to Him about hurting me. I've been hurt a lot lately, and as a believer I know that nothing comes to me without God's causing or allowing it. It's just the way it is because God is sovereign. He's also too big for me to understand completely.
I found this about the pain God allows in our lives. It's a take on a quote by AW Tozer, and it most certainly applies to me today. Click through to read it. It's short and you won't be sorry you did.
https://www.crossway.org/blog/2010/02/must-we-be-hurt-deeply-to-be-used-significantly/
God is. And He's here. And I trust Him.
Partly because I have to. But mostly because I
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