When I realized there was nothing I could personally do to improve my relationship with God except to trust Him and know that His provision is real, then I began to grow in my walk with God exponentially. I had a person say to me recently. “I just don’t know what else I can do to better my relationship with God.” Their frustration was born from circumstances in their life.
We cannot always relate circumstances back to moments of rebellion. Rebellion has its own kind of repercussion. Sometimes all God wants is for us to be still and know that He has provided for us. How can we do that? By letting His provision be our joy. We try to be self sufficient and when we fail to be self sufficient then we allow condemnation to come in, and discontent. We start saying “God, what do you want from me????”
If you will stop and listen you will hear Him say to you, “I want you to trust me and to know that I have provided for you.” Did someone loan you something you desperately needed? Did they just seem to come up to you and say “Let me help you?” Do you want to rob someone of being blessed by helping you? You see the enemy can deceive us into believing that if everything is going OK then we must be doing everything right. That is so far from the truth!
Look at my life. When I was walking and talking with my Lord, and serving and trusting in Him is the very day my two loved ones left this world. My response to that situation was the result of my relationship with my God.
So, if every good and perfect thing comes from God, can our trials be good and perfect? How about this concept?
I am going to make this trial good and perfect in all of its trouble so that the work in me can bring about the result that is good and perfect in me. So that I do not become by choice discouraged, I will know that He who has began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it in me. It could be the very trial that I’m walking in, the very sorrow that I’m feeling and the very tearing out of my soul by the actions of some I love that will make and complete the very work God has wanted to finish in me. Most of all I will say that My God will always be my God.
Where would I go if I did not have Him and if I could not call out to Him with positive assurance that even in my distress He is faithful to provide the very thing I need at that exact moment?
Simply put: I have to walk through this day and I will not allow the events of it to paralyze me, but in complete and trusting faith I put one foot in front of the other, knowing that He will not allow me to fall from His path. In fact, God is so big that my very path never escapes or exceeds the length of the very palm of His hand.
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