I feel like the trials and changes happening in my life are relevant to the book I’m reading and then the things I find out through prayer… they all connect with each other.
Things He’s been testing me on the past few months:
- Patience
- Long suffering
- Dependance on Him
- Intimacy with Him
The thing is I thought I had these things already. But He has shown me that I’ve actually only known how to have these things, I didn’t actually have them and apply them to my life. But now He’s allowing me to go through so many things like my family’s health, my relationships with people, my future, my views on myself, etc… There’s so much happening it’s overwhelming and my friend at work asked me “how do you do it? I don’t know how you deal with all that” and it made me realize that the norm would be to break down and lose hope. Once I thought about it, I actually told her “I just have a lot of faith” and she knows I’m a Christian but that answer I gave caused her to ask more questions, so I even got to talk to her about God! Crazy how God works!
So basically, bad things are happening but good things are happening too… and it’s my choice to be patient with God, depend on him, get closer to Him and find peace in the knowledge that he is a God whose love is long suffering. Through the hardships, He is faithfully working in the background, and the only way to TRUST in that is to remain intimate with Him in prayer and quality time. When you know Him and spend time with Him, you never forget His goodness, even when there’s horrible things happening all around you.
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