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God Will
Make a Way When There Seems to be None
Who is God? He is the maker of the
world, He is love, and He sent His only Son to die for our sins, so that
we can be with Him in Heaven. He is awesome to me and I don’t want to
live without Him. ( I am no Bible scholar, so bear with me in my
simplicity). God should not be taken lightly, and we very much should have
the utmost reverence for Him. Many times as I’ve read in the Bible,
I’ve been reminded of this.
What about life without God? Over the
last two years, my family has endured much hardship. I find myself to
blame, because I strayed from my ministry to serve Him online, and I
pursued earthly friendships and eventually found myself in sin. My husband
was not saved either, nor my daughter. It started with my husband having
heart attacks and eventually a quadruple bypass, and finally not being
able to work, depressed and seeking disability. I continued to work, but
changed jobs and went several weeks without pay. I found the opportunity
to acquire a position that I wanted very badly, but I failed to learn it
fast enough. My daughter’s grades, at school, began to drop along with
her attitude about herself. Several other things had gone wrong for us
during this time. My mother had a heart attack and stroke in February, and
came to live with us. At this time, I’d been trying to come back to the
Lord, but once again I turned to this sin, looking back, I suppose, but I
came to place in my life I never thought possible, dealing with suicidal
issues, no longer working and seeking disability.
God never left me during this time, so
He is faithful. I say this so many times, and it is true… He has never
left me without a place to sleep (even when I was a teenage runaway), He
has never failed to clothe me, and He has never let me starve to death.
Irregardless, I have worried and fretted day after day even hour by hour
about what we would have to eat, having enough gas to go where we needed
to go, and keeping the lights on. He spoke to my heart over and over
reminding me of His goodness…
Matthew 6 (New King James Version)
25. “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will
eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is
not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26. Look at the
birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into
barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they? 27. Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? 28.
“So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field,
how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
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29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30. Now if God so clothes
the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven,
will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31. “Therefore do not
worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What
shall we wear?’ 32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your
heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 33. But seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to
you. 34. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Still, today, I catch myself worrying, even
though I’ve seen many miracles the past two years, when I was not being
faithful to the Lord. People have helped us when we least expected it, our car
and truck has not broken down, and I watched my mom come here, not able to use
her left arm, crochet an afghan and get first place in the fair this summer.
I’ve been reading in Numbers these past few weeks, and the Lord opened my eyes
when I read this passage…
Numbers 11 (New King James Version)
21. And Moses said, “The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand men
on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat for a
whole month.’ 22. Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to provide
enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them,
to provide enough for them?” 23. And the LORD said to Moses, “Has the Lord's
arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or
not.....31. Now a wind went out from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea
and left them fluttering near the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and
about a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two
cubits above the surface of the ground. 32. And the people stayed up all that
day, all night, and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who
gathered least gathered ten homers);
From that reading, it’s clear to me that God
takes it seriously when He says He will provide, it’s not an empty promise,
and God does not make empty promises! God, forgive me for my worrying, and for
not trusting Your faithfulness, for You are true and Your faithfulness has no end. I
pray that you have not been going through the same struggles. I do know that all
suffer in this life from one thing or another. In times of pain, I’ve learned
that it’s a time of growth. I’ve said over and over that if it don’t kill
me, it’ll make me stronger. I pray that we will all learn to trust God with
our lives and we can learn to grow when things are hard.
Two thing the Lord has told me over and
over…
1) GOD WILL MAKE A WAY WHERE THERE SEEMS TO BE NO WAY….
2) Psalm 46:10 (New King James Version) 10. Be still, and know that I am
God;…
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