We all live in uncertainty; the future is unknown. None of us know what tomorrow will bring.
We all go through struggles. Most of us have had a time that we feel we’ve run straight into a wall. There’s so much brokenness in this world. So many difficult things we face: death of a loved one, loss of a job, loss of a dream, broken marriage, and many more that you may think of.
You know how we can all read the exact same scripture and it will speak to us all differently? Or how a scripture will pop out at you at a certain time in your life even though you’ve read it many times before with no special impact. God wants to use our struggles similarly. We may go through the same struggle as someone else, yet God wants to use our experience in a unique way, specific to us.
God wants to use our struggles to change us, to grow us. He wants to mold us and make us, refine and perfect us. But even though it’s the same struggle, same uncertainty, same wall for us all – He wants to work in us each differently and in a unique way. Just as His scripture speaks to us each differently.
What struggle are you facing today? What is God doing in your life? What does He want to mold or perfect in you through this time? So many possibilities. Take some time and ask Him today. Ask Him, “God what do you want to change in me? What are you showing me or speaking to me through this struggle?” Then work on that thing alongside Him and allow Him to do His perfect work! And once completed ask Him again. Because this is a lifelong journey we’re on. We should be changing under the work of His hands continually until we meet Him face to face on the streets of gold.
Be Blessed! Nothing goes to waste with God! He uses it all. Keep your eyes focused on Him through the struggle and seek what He’s doing in your life. He will use it, if you let Him!
Isaiah 64: 8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand.
Psalm 66: 8-10 Praise our God, all peoples, let the sound of his praise be heard; he has preserved our lives and kept our feet from slipping. For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver. You brought us into prison and laid burdens on our backs. You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.
