I really don't understand life very often. Things happen in the natural that I just think, "hey God, um, did you forget about me"? or Why would God let this happen to me. But the cool thing about God is he likes it when we have a change.... Why? To see us hurt and suffer? To sit back and laugh at our foolish whining and folly? or is he a cruel God as some would think, like the little kid taunting a fly by tearing off its wings and laughing that it can't fly away from the torture?
No, I believe that God has a much bigger picture in mind for us. He has a more kind and compassionate heart than we could ever understand, enough that he would send his only son to die in my (and your) place. And not just any kind of death, but the cruelest most painful death. On the cross. I know that seems dark and like, "really, that's how God shows his love for us"? Well yes, because Jesus is God that came here in the flesh. So now he knows the plight of man, since he became one of us.
So, if God has a plan for me, why is it that things just seem to keep going wrong and nothing that I do seems to prosper like is says it should in Psalms 1:3, 37:11, Prov 16:20, 28:25, Jer 29:11?
We must remember though that God is much more concerned with our spiritual growth than our financial or physical growth, although those are important too. When we fuss and whine about not having material things, it shows our spiritual immaturity. And when we worry about money and how we will be taken care of, it also show our lack of trust in the Lord.
Luke 6:38 says Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
I really don't understand what is happening to me now, I thought I had a job all lined up but now they don't know when I will start. I had already turned in a notice to the employer I was working with. I found out about the mix up the night before my last night with the current company. When I went in and explained the situation, the manager there said he wasn't able to get me back into the system. So I was no longer employed with them and not able to start my new job anytime soon. They don't know when the next orientation class will be.
I think the biggest thing that keeps us from getting what we need is selfishness or staying in our own comfortable distractions. TV is probably one of the biggest ones. I have it on right now will typing with the volume turned down. Why, mostly cause I don't want to turn the big light on and I can't see in the dark, But I could turn a smaller light on.... there are so many excuses.
But it is time we stop making excuses and start making disciples for Jesus, That should be our primary focus!
God is most certainly calling each of us to bigger and greater things, but first we have to be willing to step out of the crap we are in now to advance to the next great thing. Too often we get comfortable with the crap even though it stinks and is nasty and difficult. but what think is so important is actually a hindrance to our walk, our lives and our new opportunities
so the next question typically would be what do I do now to support my family especially since we have been living pay check to paycheck. I completely understand my wife expecting me to have this all worked out and not skip a beet with our income, but I believe this is one of those situations where I will step back (not sit on the sidelines, just get my selfishness out of the way) and see how God will work. We, my wife and I, have been through office closures, lay-offs, transferring and now quitting without a new job to go to. But all of these previous times God has seen us through. Why should I think now he is just going to say, sorry, I've bailed you out enough, you're on your own?
Mat. 7:7 says "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
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