Hi everyone!
Wishing
you all loads of love and joys on this New Year!
I hope you all had a lovely
Christmas and New Year. I am very excited about this
year and I can’t wait what God has in store for me in 2016!
In the beginning of January
until mid January, I have been struggling with my faith. I believed for things
to happen, yet they seemed unrealistic to me. One evening I had a
conversation with God regarding that and He told me that ‘Faith is a thing
unseen’, which corresponds with Hebrews
11:1 (NIV): ‘Now faith is confidence in
what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.’
I had to realise that I have
to trust God and that He will answer my
heart desires in His perfect timing not when I believe that it is the right
timing. Sometimes we want things so fast or don’t see the light at the end of
the tunnel and end up making drastic decisions.
We strive for the perfect
job, perfect husband, perfect life… But we have to realise that life has its
ups and downs and that we will eventually get to the finish line. The bumpy
journey that we are currently going through will straighten out in God’s timing.
This is all a learning process and I also believe that God is preparing us for
the thing that we are praying for. Look at David’s story, when
he was living in the wilderness, God was preparing him to fight against
Goliath.
1 Samuel 17: 33 – 37 (NIV)
‘And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to
fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his
youth.” But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his
father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,
I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he
arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him. Your
servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine
shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.” And
David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the
paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”’
If David wouldn’t have been
in the wilderness fighting bears and lions, he would not have been prepared to
fight Goliath. We have to allow God to let
us go through the wilderness so that He can prepare us. We also have to realise that God’s
promises upon our lives will come to past. Again lets look at David’s story:
2 Samuel 7:8 -11 (NIV)
‘Now
then, tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says: I took you from the
pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you
have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before
you. Now I will make your name great, like
the names of the greatest men on earth. And I will provide a place for my
people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of
their own and no longer be disturbed. Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I
appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also
give you rest from all your enemies.
The Lord declares to you that the Lord himself will
establish a house for you’
Being the youngest of 8,
David was anointed king by prophet Samuel (1
Samuel 16:10-13). He did not become King until the age of 30 (2 Samuel 5:1- 4).
What we have to learn from this
is that we have to trust God’s promises upon our lives. We may think that it is
taking too long and we may feel ready to receive the new job or whatever we are
believing God for – we must remind ourselves that only God knows when we are
ready. Just be steady in your faith. When you start to doubt, keep on reminding
yourself of His promises.
Also do not compare your
journey with other people. Their journey is not your journey. It may have taken
them less than a year to get where they wanted to be, but with
comparison comes envy. By envying someone else’s life, you stop focusing your
own purpose.
Galatians 6:4-5 (NIV) says that: ‘Each one should test their own
actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing
themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.’
I hope this blog post has encouraged
you. Trust in God’s perfect timing and keep on reminding yourself of his
promises.
