We don’t always know the answers to the “why God” questions that occur in various moments of this life. I don’t have all the answers except to point you to the One Who does… God IS sovereign, and the Bible says Isaiah 55:8-9:
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
When I am in a “why God?” situation I find myself having to remind myself that we live in a fallen and sinful world. God NEVER intended us to live in THIS type of environment. THIS was NOT God’s will for man.
WE FORGET IN OUR SELFISHNESS THAT GOD HAS FEELINGS. GOD FEELS!
There are ample amounts of scriptures in the Bible that indicate God’s feelings! If you just Google “Scriptures that attest God has feelings” see what pops up! Remember Genesis 1:26 tells us:
Then God said, ‘Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.’
GOD FEELS
Sometimes because “His thoughts are higher than ours” we don’t see when we are going through a “why” time that God WAS with us throughout it all until it’s over and we’ve crossed to the other side of the situation. But here is what I woke up with this morning, it is SO important that we read our Bibles and allow Holy Spirit to help us get the Word of God hidden deep within our hearts. It TRULY is the LIVING WORD of God, and my experience has been that Holy Spirit will bring forth “front and center” the scriptures that are closely related to what we are experiencing in life firsthand. Every Word that God allowed to be in the Bible is there for a reason! To Encourage us!
THE BIBLE IS THERE TO ASSIST US THROUGH LIFE. TO DIRECT US, GUIDE US, TEACH US AND IN READING IT WE DRAW NEARER TO GOD AND ALLOW GOD TO DRAW NEARER TO US!
Last night I watched on my television the Sight and Sound Production of Ruth (which was based on the Book of Ruth in the Bible). Sight & Sound Productions brings powerful stories from the pages of Scripture and history to life on stage and screen. You can also stream their productions on your cell phone or computer. To learn more about their amazing productions (which have blessed me TREMENDOUSLY) click on the link below:
I woke up this morning, thinking about what I had watched, the Book of Ruth is named for the Moabite woman who commits herself to the Israelite people by an oath to her mother-in-law Naomi and becomes the great-grandmother of David by marriage to Boaz of Bethlehem. Thus, she is an ancestor in the messianic line that leads to Jesus. Naomi had lost her husband and her two sons and was devastated by her tremendous loss thinking God had forsaken her. (Read the Book of Ruth in the Bible, it will bless you). Naomi’s daughter-in-law, Ruth pledged her love to Ruth and to “Ruth’s God” and converted over to the Jewish faith. Ruth 1:16 says:
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go, and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.”
Sometimes in our grief, fear, confusion or anger over a situation we miss what God IS doing through the process of what we are going through, God habitually has worked through people and if we are so focused on the situation or problem, we don’t see clearly what He is doing! So caught up in our “why” situation that we sometimes miss God’s hand upon our lives in spite of it all. We (as Naomi had) lose faith in God.
GOD IS CONCERNED FOR YOU. HE LOVES YOU. HE FEELS YOUR PAIN. HE SEES YOU! HE CARES!
Don’t allow the devil to convince you otherwise! Don’t listen to his accusations or whispers that try to make you think that God has forsaken you! He has NOT! Remember the devil is a liar! Whatever we go through in life, God wants you to know He is WITH you! There is SO much pain and anguish we go through that God NEVER intended us to experience! We have to remember that! We have to (during those stormy times in our lives) keep our eyes focused on Jesus! Know that whatever we are going through God IS with us! That He IS greater than the situations we encounter. This is where prayer comes in! This is where faith comes in! This is where fellowship with other believers comes in! This is where reading the Bible and looking at those who have come before us so we can learn from their experiences comes in! We get to see through Ruth’s story that God had NEVER forsaken Naomi! He gave her Ruth! Naomi did not live to SEE that our Savior and Redeemer years later would come from her line! Remember, we ONLY see in part – but our God Who is trustworthy sees in FULL! He SEES the FULL story of YOU!
I pray this post encourages you to let you know that if you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, made Him Lord OVER your life that YOU belong to Him! We are NOT to be led by our feelings, but to be led BY faith!
TO BELIEVE GOD, TO TRUST HIM AND IN TRUSTING HIM WALK ACCORDING BY FAITH!
Just like those in the Bible we don’t see the fullness of what God is doing in our lives behind the scenes, but we can trust that if we have given our lives over to Him, He IS doing a GOOD work! We may not know until we are on the other side ALL the lives “our life story” helps along the way by how we responded to situations, how we shared our faith, how we responded to God’s calling over our lives – but if we have entrusted God with our lives you can TRULY trust that no matter how out of control our lives feel, we trust in a God Who is ALWAYS (and has ALWAYS been) in control. He IS faithful, He IS God.
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