Hey everyone I hope your new year has started off great and I hope you all are doing great! Thanks for all the continued support!
So my new year hasn’t been all that great and I wanted all who read this to be brought into what has been going on. So out of the past month I have suffered a concussion and have been sick twice. Let me just say it has been extremely difficult to find God in all of this and I have been so frustrated. It has been a reoccurring pattern during every month I get sick, hurt or both. So the other night me and Ethan were hanging out after team time and I just started to cry because I couldn’t handle being sick and under this much stress anymore. Ethan looked at me and put his hand on my back and we began to pray. All I could do was lay my face down on the floor and cry out to God asking “Lord I can’t and don’t want my physical body to go through this anymore. You have called me to minister and be a disciple on the race, not to be sick and stuck inside a house or doctors office. Lord, please help me see what you want me to see through this!” During this prayer God gave me a verse and spoke to me through this. He said “I give my toughest battles to my strongest soldiers.” After that He led me to this:
“Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.” “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for his own life. But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.” The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life.””
??Job? ?2:3-6? ?NIV??
This really inspired me. God knew that Job wouldn’t curse Him and told even the devil to test Him!
I’m definitely not comparing my circumstances by an means. But we all may go through challenges whether they are physically, mentally or spiritually. Just know that you are a a son or daughter and God will never give more than you can bare. He loves you so much. For me I know the best place to fight my battles is on my knees with my face down, the Lord will hear you.
