I’ve been recently pondering about those times when we lack faith. Sometimes it is in the big things in life but often it is in the smaller, day-to-day events.
When we are faced with tough times, we often raise our voices, prayers and cries to God. We ask him for help. We ask him to save us.
However, when it comes to things we need to do each day, we most often don’t look to our Creator. We think that what we are doing is too small to bother him with. Or worse, what we have to do is something that we can do without him.
After all, we are fully capable of getting our jobs done on our own, right? We don’t need help and we certainly don’t need to pray about what we can and do do on a daily basis.
I thought the same way once. I’ve found, in the last two years or so, that the things I once took for granted have become huge tasks. Daily living isn’t easy for me. I have problems getting much of anything done on my own.
It has certainly opened my eyes up and I now understand that I have been wrong for most of my life. It wasn’t that I could do things on my own. I just didn’t realize that God was giving me assistance with every facet of my life.
While being ill has not been what I would call huge fun, it has been a time of gaining knowledge and insight into God and his plan for my life.
I was faced with what seemed impossible tasks. I had problems laying down. I had problems getting up. I had even more problems sitting still or standing. At the time, it seemed like too much to handle, so just as I would have done with huge events in the past, I turned to God for his help.
He has given me strength to battle each day. I wake up in pain and go to sleep in even more pain. Each day, though, is a day that I spend studying his Word. Each day, I gain more insight into my relationship with my Lord and my Savior. Each day is one more day that He has granted me to spend time with my family.
I say this to let you know that God isn’t just the God of big things. He is the one who wants to help you with whatever you are going through. It may be huge or it may be small, it doesn’t matter. Just turn your problems over to him and let him give you the answers you seek.
Now, you may not like the answers. He will do what is right for you. Sometimes lessons are hard and events are long-lasting. There is something in it that we are to learn and, sadly, there are repercussions for things that we have done.
Would that we could understand everything and not have anything hidden. However, I’ve thought about that. I don’t think we are capable of understanding everything. No matter the answer, if we don’t like it, we would keep asking why?
God has the entirety of everything in his eyes. He sees our pasts and he sees the infinite future. He is working things out in our lives and we need to trust him.
Trust him with big things and with the small ones. Pray constantly. Prayer is talking with God, it doesn’t have to be a full-blown, King James style thee and thou type of prayer. It just has to be the words and feelings of our heart as we reach out to the One who created the universe. He is loving, faithful, honest and true. He will not turn us away no matter how many times we have turned away from him.
Psalms 143:8-10
Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.
Deliver me, O Lord, from my enemies;
I take refuge in You.
Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.