Struggles. We love them, but yet we hate them. We cling to them, yet try to get rid of them by our own means. Sometimes I feel like I am so bogged down with things of this world and my struggles, things that I have dealt with for far too long, that I feel like I will never get free. What am I supposed to do?
I think there comes a point of just abandonment-surrendering everything over to the Lord, even in hurt and the unknown. When is that going to come? I don’t know…but I do know it will come in His timing. This is cliche, but with constant surrender, I know I will be freed by His blood. You know, I’ve been approached countless times with the question of “Why does God let bad things happen to good people?” Is it because He likes to see us squirm and at our lowest points in life? NO!
God is a god of love, not hate. He does not have a single bad bone is HIs body. God uses the filthy trash and decisions we have made to complete His will for our life. Sure, we may not have been following Him in our past, yet God is using that to bring His reign in our lives and then also into the world. I don’t know how many times I have asked myself, “Why on Earth did you go to an expensive school and get a degree, when you aren’t going to pursue it?” Answer: I don’t know. But regardless, I have the Lord and that’s all I need.
So, struggles suck, however God uses them to strengthen us in our walks/journeys/adventures, whatever word you want to use. “For when I am weak, then I am strong.” –2 Corinthians 12:10
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
“But he said to me-My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
