So many times I tell people that God is faithful, every day. Not sometimes. Not once in a while. Always.
He is faithful in scripture, saving His children in countless ways throughout the stories of the Bible. He is faithful to those I see around me who trust Him. There is nothing that sends my heart soaring more than hearing about God doing something great, something supernatural, in the life of someone around me. Even through the most difficult of trials, He is faithful, and I know He turns all tears into wine in His sweet time.
There is not much that I would hold back from God. I mean, why would I? Except....
Except that now, as I am a few months from the contracted completion date for my first book (the one I know for sure that God called me to and evidenced by the doors He opened for me, doors so heavy I couldn't open them with a crowbar), I am now having some health issues that are, to be honest, a bit unnerving.
I have made some appointments to check up on these things, but I feel like arrows of worry are flying around my head. I'm trying to run on past them, run towards the finish line, but it's hard. Sometimes I want a friend to just tell me, "Hey, it's going to be okay," but everyone in my life right now is pretty preoccupied with things that I have to say are very important. It's like I'm left here, alone, to figure these issues out. Maybe that's the plan.
So, here I am writing a book about giving everything we are to God, trusting Him in the worst of trials, and I find myself challenged to do that same thing: Trust Him.
Not with a career decision. Not with decisions about schools, sports, finances, etc. No, with my very life.
There are no exceptions. No problem exists that God cannot handle. Is anything impossible for Him? No.
I trust and know that HE is faithful to complete the work that He has called me to do. This is yet another chance to trust Him, to see His glory brush my life.
So, I'm going to keep on running. Keep on reaching for that prize, to be all that He saved me for, every bit, every ounce of the person He sees in me. I'm going to envision the completed work instead of allowing the "what if's?" to consume me.
And I'm going to shut out my fear, because I know that perfect love (and perfect trust) casts out fear.
So that said, it's time to write.
"And I am convinced and sure of this very thing,
that He Who began a good work in you will continue
until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return],
developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you."
(Philippians 1:6 AMP)
"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,
because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
(1John 4:18 NIV)
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