So, why didn't God stick out for me when in my 20s and 30s and 40s.? We may even ask why He's helped some people who may not have asked for His help and He's left us crying out to Him for years.
I knew there were times I had charged God with being partial and being unfair.
Looking back, I can say that I really never understood and still don't understand. However, in my life, right now, seeing what He's doing, I have come to trust Him so much even when I don't have a clue what He is putting together for me. He is God and will always be my Father.
Much of our life today is shaped by decisions we made and opinions we formed when we were young? These immature pacts we made with ourselves often have great sway over the course of our lives. Nevertheless, not only does the Cross provides the remedy for the shame of our sinful pasts, It also speaks, just as His blood atones for our present 'unjust' suffering. (Without doubt, there is physical, psychological and mental suffering in waiting).
So where is God in all of these? Good question! God is at the centre, Where HE promised to make all things work together for our good.
A couple had their first child in their late 50s. The wife married him when she was 44 and had to wait 12years to have a child. Wasn't it enough that she married late? Enduring another wait to have a child must have been a horrendous one. She did not sin or done wrong, neither the god-fearing husband. This was God's plan to use these couple to showcase His power, His wonder working power to all men. My jaws dropped as I listened to their testimony.
God must have been so proud of this couple who trusted and waited on Him till the very end. He needed those He could trust with His grace to wait in Him for the appointed time. He found this couple faithful.
Perhaps, God's looking for more people to use as vessels through whom His power and greatness will be demonstrated to the whole world. If you can't understand Him, you can still trust in Him; Self-help diverts the course of His divine plan.
When we make our life take on an eternal perspective; and we become able to truly forgive all our oppressors. These realities may be as shadows to us right now, but God is at work bringing them into full view in our life sooner than we can imagine.
God's calling out: "My daughters! trust Me, I know your fears, I am working in your favour, My plans are good, I love you......I will give you a future and a hope."
"I waited patiently for the Lord to help me,
and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord. who have no confidence in the proud
or in those who worship idols. O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us.
Your plans for us are too numerous to list.
You have no equal.
If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds,
I would never come to the end of them.
Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord,...." (Psalm 40:1-5)
Although our circumstances had produced great personal pain, they also had been hand-selected by a loving and all-knowing God to produce good things in our life that only they could produce.
In a Culture of Self where the problems of the past continually invade the present, the Cross of Christ in the gospel of Christ is at work invading our past, overturning lies, redefining events, and extending the light of the glory of God into the darkest memories of our lives.So, yes! We can still trust God for a testimony filled 2014. Our expectations shall not be cut off in Jesus name.
Much love to you all.
