Over the last couple of weeks, our Pastor at my church has been talking on Habakkuk and "Trusting in Troubled Times". It has been greatly convicting and so full of truth directly from God's word. I love how our Pastor uses scripture to back up more scripture, it speaks to my heart even more so! God definitely knew that Alan and I needed to hear this teaching series, it completely applies to everything we have been feeling as of late. Habakkuk was a prophet who "bodly and confidently took his complaints directly to God. Troubled by what he observed, he asked difficult questions. And God answered with an avalanche of proof and prediction." [NIV life application study bible]
I have loved this study! One of the many things that spoke to me was this from our sermon notes studying Habakkuk 1:5-11; God is perfect in Love, Infinite in Wisdom, and Completely Sovereign! He is doing a work, and it will not always make sense to us. It may confuse us and bewilder our puny human minds compaired to God's complete All Knowing. He is God, we are not! Worry is assumed all knowing, we worry because we want to be in control and we think we know what is best for us, but WE DONT! I am a control freak, I admit it. I hate when things dont go the way I planned, or when the house is out of order, or when my son isn't behaving the way I think he should (mind he is only 18 months old). This is something I must work on, to TRUST that God has my best interests at heart, even if that means going through hard times. He will do whatever it takes to get me closer to Him! Isn't that amazing? The King of Kings, my Lord, wants to draw me closer to Him to have a personal relationship with Him! He longs for me to be closer to Him, to be near Him. How truly wonderful that is. :) He loves us that much that he would take us through valleys to draw us unto Him. As my Pastor has said the last couple of Sundays, "There is something worse than dissapointment with God and that is dissapointment without Him!" Can you even imagine going through life and all of it's hardships with out our loving Father? I can not! He is our rock in troubled times, our refuge during the storm, our comfort who comforts us in times of trouble that we may share with others in the comfort we ourselves have received. Following Christ doesn't mean He will make life better for us, that all of our problems with vanish with a "POOF" but we follow Him because He is and always will be BETTER thand LIFE! I must say that the times I have really seen myself grow in my walk with Christ was through the hard times. Cling to God, have faith that he will pull you through any and every situation, and know that He will never leave you or forsake you. What a God we serve!
God bless you all! :)
"but the righteous will live by faith" Habakkuk 2:4
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