Everyone has cares….anxiety, problems they can’t solve. Families are broken, hearts are hurting. Souls are always looking for an escape or a fulfillment…My cares are not your cares and vice versa. If you want to discuss them just send me an email 🙂 My problems are real and pressing. No perfect life here. But if we are in Christ, He is using all these to draw us to Him. Yes, affliction people. It’s not pretty. It’s also not fair. Key word “affliction”……When my heart was especially anxious and distraught, a friend gave me this verse printed on a piece of paper to hang in my room.
“I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.” Psalm 119:75
What do you think about that? Do you believe God’s Word? In faithfulness, HE HAS AFFLICTED YOU? WHAT? Can we take a minute to grasp what this implies? That he actually sees good in the trials He has allowed into your life? That the money in your bank account or lack there of is ON PURPOSE. The pain in your joints and the cries of your children are for YOUR GOOD. The hurt in your heart and the betrayal you are experiencing IS THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD to YOU for your future good? The great thing about God is that when You are His, He cares for you. There is nothing that can separate you from the love that He has for you and He is actively working all the things of your life together for your good and His glory.
Why? It’s called sanctification.
“because the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.” Hebrew 12:6
“They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness.” Hebrews 12:10
So yeah. Things happen everyday. But they are no accident. We have idols in our hearts. We need change and repentance and more faith and trust and a fully surrendered life to God. He sees this before we do. What are we to do about this? Do we lie awake at night making spreadsheets and problem solving and replaying offense and wrestling with God? Well you can, but night girl always ruins morning girl….and it probably won’t get you anywhere but more exhausted.
Instead, decide to train your mind to put all that on God, and go to sleep. HE will get you through the unbearable. HE is our peace.
For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility. Ephesians 2:14
People might not change or apologize or want reconciliation, circumstances may never get better, things may not make sense.
“Cast your cares on the Lord, and He will sustain you.” Psalm 4:8
Friends, I can only say this because I was and am being afflicted. May your soul be filled with peace and may you find rest in the One who satisfies.
