Why is my life so hard ?
Why are these things happening to me?
I pray to God for healing but there's no healing.
I pray to God for better finances but no money is forthcoming.
I am so tired of these struggles.
I am on the verge of given up.
I might as live life the way I want to and hope to die soon.
Have these thoughts ever come to your mind ?
These are thoughts many will encounter as they ascend the mountain of God.
For many of us life began good. We had a great time in our youth, we believed in love, we believed that the future was bright, we felt whole as a person. But somewhere along the way harship showed up. An illness, a broken heart, the death of a loved one, broken aspiration sent us into despair and grief. Suddenly life becomes dark and hopeless. But somewhere along the way, we heard the voice of God. We hear someone preached, " come to Jesus and all will be well, come to Jesus and He will give you the desires of your heart." And so we come to Jesus hoping that now I am back on the right track, now i will achieve the desires of my heart.
In the beginning of our walk with God, we feel rejuvenated, excited and happy. We see the Lord working in our lives, giving us victories over different things, helping us in different areas in life etc..So we get on fire for God, sharing His Word with all and we can see heaven right ahead 😀. But then, hardships start coming in, a health problem, relationships problems, financial problems or any other type of problems start showing up and we begin to experience despair, we start thinking maybe God is not with me anymore.
As the problems seem big, many of us start losing hope and some of us even begin to neglect prayer as depression begin to dominate us. What is happening?
What is happening is the Lord has begun the process of purification in earnest. The problem with us is we are filled with pride, even when we come to Jesus pride is still reigning in our hearts and deep down we think we know the best way for God to lead us. It was pride that God Satan kicked out of heaven and so in order for us to enter heaven pride must be kicked out of our lives.
And so God in His mercy begin to allow severe trials to enter our lives to show us that unless we depend entirely on Him we will not be able to overcome.
The trials of life are meant to turn our eyes away from self and unto Jesus. Trials are designed to lead us to our prayer closets and to remain at the foot of Jesus.
The closer we draw to God you will feel you are losing control of your life, losing control of yourself and your plans.
This is exactly the Lord's working, for unless we lose control, God can never be in control.
For God to be God in my life means i must stop being a god in it. And so like the plagues of Egypt ,God will allow disasters and hardship to come into our lives until we bow down and acknowledge that He alone is God and unlike the Egyptians surrender to His leading .
In order for us to be whole in Christ, our wholeness in sin must be broken up.
It is only as the leadership and guidance of God increase in our lives that we will experience true joy.
When we are faced with a particular trial in life, we ask Lord help me to see the issue in my life with this trial and help me to endure as you purify me.
On the way to God are many trials and difficulties. But each trial is designed to remove specific things in our lives that are holding us in captivity.
Each trial from God is a blessing in disguise. Anything that bring us closer to Christ and cause to rely more upon His strength is a blessing. Trials have a way of bringing us closer to God than nothing else can.
The call of God is a call to purity and holiness.
God is a consuming fire and you better believe you will feel the burn as you ascend to Him. Do not give up, allow the dross to be burned away, allow your pride to be laid in the dust.
Draw near to God and He will consume all our filth from us with His fiery trials . Stay faithful, stay on the path no matter what, for "without holiness no man will see the Lord." Book of Hebrews . And being Holy means being in God and God in you.
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