Oh, Well

Ever have a time in your life when you feel that nothing turns out as you planned and that you hit a snag no matter which way you turn? If this happens often enough and for a long enough period of time, you become despondent, and you figure that nothing matters anymore. You might say, "Oh, well," and decide to give up.

Not So

All of us have had times of the sort mentioned in the first paragraph to crop up in our lives. For some of us, these times last longer than they do for others. But you know, when I look at the Job of the Bible and Hezekiah of the Bible and several others, I see hope where reason says there is no hope because there is no way out.

 

But

You know what I see when I look at the people mentioned in the previous paragraph? I see people who are standing on their belief in the deliverance and faithfulness of their God. That is what we all have to do in trying times, those times when you have gone from being king of the mountain to hardly being able to govern your own life. Those are the times that try your soul.

Think About This

These times "did not come upon you for nothing." There is a reason for everything that occurs under heaven and a time for all things that occur under heaven. (Ecc. KJV) That means that there is a time for the cessation of trouble in your life. You just have to hold on, wait it out. While you are waiting for the cessation of trouble, try to remain faithful and to remember Whose child you are. Also, put your brain on trying to figure out what lesson you are supposed to learn from this particular bout with trouble. (This is covered quite a bit in my latest inspirational book, Chopping My Row, pp 15-36.)

Determine This In Your Heart

Determine that you are going to wait the trouble in your life out. Say like Isaiah said, "I will wait until my change comes."  (Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 27:14, KJV)

Last Thing to Remember for Today

Sometimes God allows things to happen to us so that we can have our pride moved out of the way so that He can go to work on us getting us to do further work that He has for us to do. All in all, just remember, that you are in the hands of a loving God, Who sees, knows and cares. He made you, so He knows that you are just a clay vessel. He knows how to bend you without breaking you. How does He know? Why, because He made you!

Be blessed and hold your head up.

Doing What I Can, While I Can Because I Care,

Alma L. Stepping On Carr-Jones