POINTS of
temptation in life, where giving up can seem the only momentary option, can
drive us into an anxiously depressed pole.
Overwhelmed with just how bad life is, we may panic and lose all sense
for logic and reason.
The opportunity during
these moments is to slow down, take some deep breaths, and consider that what
seems horrendous is probably nothing so threatening.
Faith says to
such a situation, “Relax, press in, trust God, and everything will be fine!”
Let’s not
besmirch the presence of difficulty. God
has a role for hardship in propelling our faith toward a deeper reliance on
Him. These trials that bear themselves
against us right now make us pine for better times of past, but they may just
as easily prove to be the very thing that awakened us from a sabotaging
spiritual slumber.
Adversity
awakens the giant. It evokes alert courage
for action.
Adversity was
made for faith, for faith’s made perfect in adversity.
The hard thing
ahead of us is made easier when we see how God’s helped make hard things behind
us doable. We only have to believe the
hard thing is possible. God proves
faithful in the rest. All we need to do
is show up, to keep stepping by faith, and God will lead us through the valley
of the shadow of death. And He will
return to us our joy, hope and peace if
we will just trust Him.
God adds
something to us when our faith refuses to give up.
He takes our
faith — as small as a mustard seed — and He makes of it something tantamount to
perfection in adversity. Faith cannot
rise without it.
The more adverse
the situation, the more we show up, cheerfully, because by choice we can, the
more God blesses us with His strength in our weakness.
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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