Why do we wait until we are at our lowest to call out to God? Why do we keep thinking we can handle it all on our own and that it'll turn around without His help?
I feel like everyone I know has someone close to them that is going through a very low time in their lives. But they just haven't reached bottom yet and are unwilling to turn to God. And we are hurting and desperate for our loved ones to run to God instead of away from him, praying out our hearts to a God who hears us and is waiting for them to need him.
And I am reminded that not only is God the one who hears, who answers and who delivers, he also will do whatever it takes so that we realize we need him. I think about the Israelites in the desert. One of my favorite verses is found in Deuteronomy.
He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Deuteronomy 8:3
When we are stubborn and won't come to God when life is easy, he does whatever it takes to draw us to himself. To show us that we need him and we can't live by ourselves, trying things our own ways. So even as we watch our loved ones go through some hard things, that are not fair and that hurt us to see, we must trust in a God who is using even that for his glory, to show himself, and to open their eyes to see that they really need him.
Because the decision to serve him is a personal one each person must make for themselves. And so God draws them, compels them to come to him and he does whatever necessary to show his love, to pull at their heart strings. Because God loves them as much as we do and is looking forward to the day when they choose to run to him, full force ahead, nothing in the way, so he can love on them the way he has longed for.
No comments:
Post a Comment