Sometimes, the hardest place to stand is between our pursuits and God’s plans. We position ourselves in prayer. And we put our feet to the pavement pursuing what we pray. We do our part and wait for God to do His. Every now and then, God will put the brakes on our pursuits and put chains on our strengths. Most times, we think that it’s the enemy attacking us and standing in the way of what God has for us. But quite the contrary. Sometimes, it’s not the enemy. Sometimes, it’s God orchestrating His Divine staying hand to position us in the places that require us to exercise the faith we profess to have. God knows that we believe in Him. But He wants us to trust Him. He wants us to rely on Him. We don’t come into a place of trust and reliance with the things we can do for ourselves. But it’s when God intentionally disables our strengths and abilities, that we find ourselves searching for strength and power elsewhere. It is then, knowing what we know and knowing Who we know, that we approach God with all of our weaknesses, inabilities and inadequacies asking Him to do what we cannot do for ourselves. And when His strength is made perfect in our weaknesses, we learn to appreciate our weaknesses. And we learn to rely on His strengths. We come to an understanding that had we not been disabled, we’d never come to the know that God is more than able. God will present us with opportunities to trust Him, but He will not force us to trust Him.
*Tressa Jo
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