Why?

Why do I worry? Why do I have fear of the unknown? Why do I freak out?

If I really grasped how massive God is I wouldn’t struggle with any of those things above. It never seems to fail that once God breaks the box I put him in I then put him back in another slightly bigger one.

When has God ever failed? If he has never failed and never changes why do I sometimes fail to trust His plan... it sounds ridiculous that I fall so short in trusting in Him for the plan he created for ME?! What on earth makes me believe that I can trust in myself for a plan I didn’t think of?

Take a minute to think about God.

God is Love:Just:Holy:Faithful:Jealous:Healer:Merciful:Patient:Provider:Comforter:Compassionate.

I have been finding it hard here in Darwin to not get caught up in my expectations for things. Sometimes I get so frustrated because things are falling short of what I want them to be. I get restless when I don’t understand what the next step is. I fear when I think about how much things cost here and wonder how God will provide. I become overwhelmed when I take on too much. These things shouldn’t be consuming my thoughts God’s faithfulness should be.

As I was sitting in church and the pastor was talking about healings it hit me straight in the face about how selfish I was being. The massive God of the universe wants to use me for His glory and all I can think about is how much I’m missing “home” and my comforts of life. He choose to heal me completely for His glory, I couldn’t be doing what I’m doing without that healing. He gave me my strength back and showed himself to me in my most desperate hour. It’s because of him I have life and to think that I have any right to live for my comforts is crazy.

What is even more mind blowing is that even though I become selfish He still extends His hands out asking me to surrender to Him. Every time I fall short, He is there extending His grace and mercy ready to help me again.  The God we server is AMAZING!

The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is. I encourage you to spend some time with God asking Him to reveal His character to you; sometimes we just pick and choose what we want to view Him as and that doesn’t allow us to fully experience him.

So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.

 

None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.

Romans 8:35-39(MSG)