Is it just me, or do you get excited sensing that God’s up to something new for you? You can feel like He’s got something in store for you…
And, you know it’s always going to be good!
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Psalm 42:5
I don’t know what you’re going through, but I can honestly tell you God will work it for your good.
So many times when we’re confronted with something, we tend to become stressed and feel like we don’t want to deal with it, we don’t want to have to walk it out.
We may view the thing as another change we may have to make in our life and that can make us uncomfortable, bothered.
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:26
What I’ve found is that often when these things come up, it’s really God working behind the seen (scene). I can’t see Him, physically, so I don’t always recognize it’s Him at first. But, He’s arranging things in my day to help me, to show me something new, to reveal more of Himself, and His wonderful nature to me. Know what I mean?
At first, I can even be scared about a situation only to find out that it was God asking me to step out of my boat, again, to learn more about how to walk on water – and, that’s cool =).
In the end, I find that I’m thankful He brought up the uncomfortable situation, that He confronted me with a necessary change, that He’s being true to His covenant with me, that He’s loving on me. Somehow, He’s made me more like Him because of it, whatever the “it” is that He’s brought up. And, that’s always exciting. Nothing like repenting (change He knows I need to make to be more like Him, more free), folks. Brings times of wonderful refreshing.
And, He then allows us to share the experience with someone who needs exactly what He’s doing in us. Win-win. Yipee!
Can’t wait to see what He has in store for me the rest of the day.
Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so…
God bless you all,
Mark