#22

Life is faced with difficult decisions that we, as humans, often try to make on our own instead of looking to God for answers.  I find myself doing this WAY TOO OFTEN. Jesus says in 1 John 5: 14-15, “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.”  Go to Jesus in fervent prayer when life throws difficult decisions our way. It can be easy to think that praying and asking of the Lord means that we can just sit back and let Him handle it all. But that is not the case. Jesus opens the doors to new chapters and opportunities and all we have to do is simply walk through it.  Jesus does not lead us in the wrong direction so why would we not enter through the doors that he opens for us? It can be hard and I have struggled personally with putting my whole trust in the Lord. It says in Hebrews 11:6 that it is IMPOSSIBLE to please the Lord without faith. Whoever draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek Him.

I do not have it all together and have been a person of very little faith certain times in my life.  But I have never heard anyone say “I wish I wouldn’t have had so much faith.” It is always the other way around people wishing that we would have had more faith.  It is so incredible how the Lord continues to take care of and bless us so immensely when we still have so little faith. I can think back to several times in my life when my life was filled with doubt and little faith but Jesus still pulled me through those difficult times and for that I give ALL glory to God.  

Looking back now, those difficult times in my life are so little. Trust me when I say that in the moment the anxiety and fear of whatever I was facing seemed and was so real and if I was asked if I would ever get through it some days I bet I would have said no.  But those trials in life are the broken pieces that make up our beautiful mosaic of life. Life is too short to fret the small things. Give it all to God and put your trust in Him. He will open doors that you never imagined ever even being unlocked for you. When he opens those doors walk through. It will lead to great things.