Last week I had days where I felt extremely overwhelmed with all the details of moving to another country. I felt like it was impossible for everything to get done. But as I was studying this week and preparing my lesson to teach the junior high students at BSF (Bible Study Fellowship- awesome study to understand more of the Bible), God revealed to me that I needed to apply what I was teaching.
The question we had was "how has God's faithfulness in tough times in the past grown your relationship with God so you trust Him more with your future?"
Of course my relationship with Him grows immensely in those times because He becomes so real and personal. He takes us through those tough times purposefully so we depend on Him and not on ourselves, and when things seem impossible, He makes them possible. It is a miraculous thing to see! Through those times my love for Him reaches new heights because He is AWESOME and MIGHTY and POWERFUL and SURPRISING and VISIBLE!!! He alone is God and there is none like Him. That was my answer...
the problem was that I was not applying the last part of the question to my current situation. Because He continually shows me His faithfulness and that I can trust Him, I should trust Him with my future.
So God challenged my faith and reminded me to surrender all my fears and anxiety and feelings and worries all to Him. He is capable of handling it all! Surely if He can deliver the Israelites out of the plague of the death of the firstborn, out of slavery in Egypt, out of a fearful situation where the Israelites were completely trapped between mountains, a sea, and Pharaoh's army, then surely He can deliver me through my stuff! And He chose not to remove Pharaoh's army, but instead He allowed them to keep pursuing Him and parted the Red Sea. Hello! I said parted the Red Sea!! The Bible says that there were walls of water that stood up. God didn't take away the opposition but carried them right on through it. There are so many more details to the story, but truly God revealed to me that He can and will do the impossible. So as my BSF leader (who is amazing by the way) always says....I should not tell God how big my problems are, but instead I should tell my problems how BIG MY GOD IS!!! That's what I am talking about!
Well I am sure I will need to be reminded of it 1000 more times, but for now it's sinking in. I want to have relentless faith like Moses grew to have in that passage. When the Israelites were fearful and started complaining, he told them: "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still" (Exodus 14:13-14). Moses didn't start out bold...but he ended up bold. That's where I am headed. I am on my journey of believing God!
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