There are moments in my life when I feel like I am cruising along and everything is good, and then WHAM! Something comes out of nowhere and throws me for a loop. Then something else piles on, and one more thing, and on and on. It can get overwhelming. God is clearly testing me, not to the Job level (or mostly not), but goodness, how many times do I need to prove that trust?
It’s not just me. There are certainly many, many people in my shoes, people that can say, Really God? There’s more? I don’t think that I can take any more. I pray for it to stop, I pray for answers, and then I wait. It seems like a never-ending cycle. Pray, trust, wait. Over and over again.
Let’s unpack that for a moment. The prayer leads to trust and the trust leads to the waiting. The waiting always brings an answer. If you never make it to the trust part, you can’t actually get to the answers. Lots of people pray in the hard times, but do you pray in the happy ones? Are you really trusting that God has got your situation in hand?
Think about Job. Satan really plagued Job for years! Job lost everything- his wealth, his health, his family- all of it. The one thing that he did not lose was his faith. Through it all, Job still had faith and trust in God. After all his suffering, God rewarded Job and he ended up in a way better place than when he started.
The story of Job gives me hope. Whatever trials and tribulations that may be happening in my life right now (or in yours), I will pray, trust, and wait. I’m still working on the waiting part. The waiting might be the most important (and hardest) part. It can be long or short, but it does eventually end and answers do eventually come.
Are you willing to pray, trust, and wait for the answer? I hope so. Think of it as preparation for the next “surprise/bombshell” coming to change your world. I can’t predict when it’s coming, but I do know how to handle it-sometimes one moment at a time. When this situation is handled, another will come. That’s how it works.
I wholeheartedly agree with Mother Theresa. I wish God didn’t give me so much. However, today I will aspire to have faith like Job and trust that God has it all handled. What are you going through right now? Are you willing to join me?
