Do you ever look at a situation and feel so overwhelmed that it’s depressing? Do you find the circumstances completely beyond your ability to change? And the magnitude of your situation makes you wonder if even God can fix things?
I have. I do. I have felt like my life is facing impossible situations. What is crushed can’t be mended. What is broken can’t be fixed. What is changed can’t be unchanged. What is lost can’t be found.
You could say that this is glass half empty thinking. Perhaps. But if the glass is half empty, that means I’ve already consumed the first half. I’ve lived that half (and survived by God’s grace), and I still have half to go. That’s far from giving losing hope, no matter how overwhelming life can feel.
We will all climb many mountains and trudge through our share of valleys. We’ll walk in the wilderness and feel spiritual drought. But there is also abundant gratitude and sunshine in the midst of any discouragement. After all, God promised to be with us until the end of the age. We aren’t there yet.
I opened the different devotional and that day’s focus was;
I could not have orchestrated those two lessons to contain the same message on the same day if I’d tried. The devotions were not related in any way–and one was written from a Puritan perspective, the other modern day. And yet…God is timeless. He knew that on that day I needed a double dose of that message.
And actually, it continued to pop up in the Scriptures I read–the truth of God’s grace, the ability of God to do anything and do it better than I could begin to imagine. The New Testament told me of God’s grace to believe. The Old reminded me of the way God parted the Red Sea and made it a dry path to walk on.
We call these things miracle and many people doubt their validity.
I have. A friend of mine saw the miraculous healing of her son. He was at the end of hope when friends prayed over him, and he began to improve so much that he is almost back to the boy he had been before he was afflicted.
I’ve seen the miracle of faith and the miracle of birth and so many smaller things that we don’t always realize come from the hand and grace of God. If our eyes could see the world the way God sees it…if the blinders to the spiritual were removed from our human vision, we would see so much more than we can see now. More than we could ask or imagine.
We would believe the impossible is possible. We would believe that God can do anything, that those prayers can be answered, that what is broken can be fixed, what was stolen can be restored, what is lost can be found.
I’ve learned a lot in recent years and I’ve been hit with many reasons to doubt God’s ability to do what I can’t. But when I do that, I bring God down to my level and I think He has no more power than I do. Rather faithless, wouldn’t you say?
But God is gracious and kind and He understands my weakness. He knows I am mortal and cannot see what He can see. So I decide to trust that He can do what I can’t.
He will make right what is wrong. He will fix what I can’t. He will prove to me and the entire world someday that He can do exceedingly, abundantly, above all that I could ask or imagine according to the power that works in us. He can work in me. He can change me. And He can change you. He can change our circumstances, but greater still, He can change our hearts.
~Selah
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