Have you ever gotten to a point in your life, where nothing seems to be happening? You pray and you pray and still, nothing is breaking free? Where you really want something; to make a move, to get a new job, to have a great relationship, yet it seems like it just isn’t happening. Of course, there is always a reason; they passed you over for someone else, the place you wanted got sold before you even had a chance to look, etc.
Life is filled with obstacles and at times they may seem like they are overwhelming and impossible. We discuss the problem with family and friends. We tell them about our woes. Sometimes we even pray with them over and over about what to do in this situation and for God to work a miracle.
I want you to know that there are always three parts to every situation. Yours. Theirs. And the truth. You see your truth, isn’t necessarily the entire truth. It is skewed through our perception and filtered through our feelings. We feel that the world isn’t fair (well, it isn’t). That others are keeping us down. That God isn’t hearing our cry. That is our truth.
Our truth is the one we deal with. The one we work with. The one we share. Our perception of truth is based on our emotional state and what we feel to be true. Yet, we aren’t all knowing. We can’t see into the hearts of others and therefore we don’t know their truth.
When we rely solely on our faith to get us through and stand back to wait and see what God is going to do, we are following a truth that we feel in our hearts. Following our path. Yet, when we seek God in His temple, and we meditate on His word, we find His truth.
We know that we can say to a mountain, move and if we believe (have faith) it will happen. We don’t follow it up with the second part of that truth; Faith without works is dead.
What?
Faith, you believe it will happen, without works, you doing something to help make it happen, is dead. (It is not going to happen.)
Think about it. God is our creator. He is the maker of heaven and earth. Of the light and the dark. Of everything in between. He can do anything. God is also a father. A good father knows His children. He knows what we need. He knows that giving us everything we want when we want it is a bad thing. Our learning to rely on His guidance, learning how we are to accomplish what we set out to do is a good thing. There has to be a balance. We need to work to learn who He is in our lives. We need to actively seek Him out to discover His attributes.
Just because we ask for something and we believe we are going to get it doesn’t mean that it will happen the way we expect in the time frame we have set out.
God DOES answer our prayers. He says, “yes”. He says, “no”. And He says, “wait”.
It is often our impatience and our decisions that lead us to where we end up and away from where we should be. God may have something magnificent planned for you, but you may decide to get off that path and by doing so, delay your miracle. You take a detour.
God has given us free will to allow us to do this. We get to explore and experiment. We even get to wait for a while. We actively participate in the things that happen in our lives and how and when we are going to get there. It is not being dictated to us, we are free to choose. When we live in fear – of making a move or fear of not being an active participant and think that the mountain is going to move on its own, we run into trouble.
As fun as science fiction and fantasy are, they don’t line up with our realities. We need to work to get to where we want to be. If we don’t work or take action toward the goals we want to achieve, either we won’t achieve them, or they will be delayed.
If you want to climb a mountain, you might have to walk through the valley first. You won’t reach the top until you take a step and start to climb.
Seek God. Pray. Meditate. Then take a step in the direction you want to head and see what happens.
