Thursday, March 26, 2009

Growing in God


It still amazes me the way that God works. His ways are in no way my ways and his timing is definitely not on my time schedule. I have been waiting for the funding to purchase my farm from the FSA. sometimes I do not know if the seller will wait any longer and they may sell it to somone else. so the waiting has been difficult for me. many a days I have felt like giving up, like nothing would ever go right, and that no one else has to go through this. Many days God has reminded me to keep trusting him, and to lean on his ever strong arms. that no matter what happens he is in control, and nothing can go out of his will. the other day i just felt that I must being doing something wrong that I keep having to wait like this. when I had my prayer time nothing seemed to encourage me to trust in God and so I was having a pretty good pity party when I began to read my daily reading. (I try to read good Christian books usually a chapter a day after my prayer time, if I have the time) I have been rereading Stones of Fire by Isabel Kuhn, when I came across this little jem of truth. "I had been feeling that no one had such heavy trials as I had. But doctor said that everybody has trials and that they are purposely allowed of God that we may develop and grow in our spiritual lives. That was a great help to me, changing my point of view. Even as a limb of the body needs exercise or it will become unusable, so we Christians must have circumstances that cast us upon God or we will never experience the strength of His undergirding arms or the faithfulness of His love toward us." it amazes me that no matter where we are and how alone I feel there are others out there who feel just like me. but what amazes me even more is that we serve a God you loves me so deeply, and yet knows exactly how I feel, and is strong enough to help me. Heb 4:15-1615 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin. 16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (from New International Version) It is reassuring to know that I need this stress and strain so that I will grow into the likeness of my savior.

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