Everyone’s journey is different. I have gone through my life always feeling I have been living it backwards. Maybe this is because I have had to have so many life events to experience so that God could then use me to bring others to Him….. I accept this!
Luke 5:31-32 NIV
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
If my life had went perfectly…..who could I help in return?
I’m not saying that God purposefully dealt me such strife, He is NOT cruel! Just the opposite actually. I own up to, and repented for all my decisions; but I thank God , I thank Jesus Christ, that they have always protected me from the worst! And, I am forgiven!
Isaiah 61:10-11 NIV
I delight greatly in the Lord ; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
It is because I embrace God and His way that I can help others. I accept that God’s plan is HIS. He answers my prayers , but he is very creative and often prayers are not answered how I would have envisioned them. Sometimes, a prayer is answered and outwardly it looks like a situation of suffering…. but I know there is so much more going on that ONLY God could orchestrate so perfectly. And I revel just to let it flow. Because in the end, His plan will work out for the good.
Romans 8:28 NIV
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Psalms 23:6 NIV
Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Are you recognizing God’s answered prayers for you?
Are you looking at your life and embracing your suffering as a gift that you may now use to help others?
Are you willing to let God answer your prayers His way? Knowing that He will only bring goodness?
Colleen Moore
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