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I am a natural optimist so when dark clouds of negativity hover long over me and my world, I am bothered. Though I have never been closer to the Lord (and perhaps because of it) I have been feeling increasingly inadequate and frustrated.
The voices of those I know {and those that I don’t} can wound deep even if they are not meant to. I am left wondering, doubting myself – again.
Then there are the trials – the long trials – those wounds that if not aired in the breath of the Word faithfully, begin to fester and grow and deepen. This struggle that God has promised to work for the good…remains. There is little change – good or bad – and doubts begin to niggle away at my faith.
I really {dare I say it?} hate waiting. I’ve tried all I can in my own strength and here I am with my prayers – beginning to cool and wane. I’ve tried everything that I know – prayer, praise, thanksgiving…but still my heart aches and I wonder if this is all there is? Aching, wondering, hoping…
Then in my search for answers, my faithful friend Charles Spurgeon, says this to me:
God promised Moses to feed the people in the wilderness with meat. And Moses, being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the creature rather than the Creator.
God has promised to supply our needs and we look to the creature {man} to do what God has promised to do; and then because we perceive the creature to be weak and feeble, we indulge in unbelief.
And like Bunyan’s Christian, my burden falls to the foot of the cross and hope is restored.
The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the fulfillment of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of the invisible God who will most surely do as He has said. – Charles Spurgeon
Have you felt discouraged by a long trial? Take heart today!
Linking up with: Michelle, Ann, Laura, and Amy
Continuing to give thanks:
201: God is faithful
202: God never grows weary
203: God supplies all of our needs
204: His grace is sufficient
205: God has promised victory over sin and death
206: that all things work together for good
207: that I don’t have to rely on man
208: a garden growing
209: lessons from that garden
210: fruit from the garden
211: fellowship
212: hope in Him and Him alone
213: family
214: children growing in grace
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