As I turn the calendar from 2010 to 2011, it's hard not to wonder what the new year will bring. The one thing I'm sure of is that God is faithful and He is the source of every good thing that comes into my life. He will also give me the strength to endure the inevitable troubles and battles ahead.
Today I received an email from Brenda, a sister in Christ from my Bible study group. The message was so encouraging to me I wanted to share it with you in full.
The last two days I have been thinking on the many prayer requests that have come to me over the last several months. They have been varied in need, but still extremely important to those requesting the prayer. In the natural, this has been very overwhelming because I want to “fix” things and make it all work for everyone, but in the spirit, I know that God has a plan for each of our lives, and I know that He can be trusted.
Even as I write today, I’m thinking on the goodness and faithfulness of God. It is two years today that I was able to donate a kidney to one of my brothers. I am still amazed that he used me in this process, and both my brother, his wife, my family, friends and I could see His hand all the way through to the end. God is faithful. I share this to encourage all of you, as well as myself, to persevere and continue to draw close to Him because it’s in the relationship not the religion that we will find the strength to keep going when it seems like our prayers are hitting the ceiling and falling back to the ground.
There are times in my own life I have found myself praying the way I want things to work out in a given situation; but as I draw closer to Him, I know in my spirit that He has the perfect plan; a plan far beyond what any of us can think, dream or imagine, and He has a way and path that we would not necessarily choose to take or have our loved ones take to move into this plan. He can be trusted.
Just this past week in a conversation with my daughter-in-law, Christina, she made a statement that really touched my heart. When we are in situations and don’t know what to do, how to pray, how to respond, etc., what do we do. She said, “I always ask myself, but what do I know to be truth.” I ask you, what do you “know” to be truth about Him? I believe we could all look back over our lives and say that he pulled me from the miry clay and set my feet upon “the Solid Rock”; that all of our righteousness is as filthy rags but for the blood of Jesus….we’ve all been there. Were it not for His grace, where would any of us be.
As we each lift up our hearts to God on behalf of loved ones, situations in our own lives and the lives of others, what do we know to be truth about Him? I challenge each of us to meditate on the truth about Him and what he has already done in each of our lives; He is our hope. It’s time to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Walk in the truth that you know. Be encouraged and allow Him to work His plan.
Love and blessings,
Brenda
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