As I was ironing my clothes yesterday, I started to become anxious when thinking about certain things I am fighting to achieve. Before I could even say to God “What is going on? What more do I have to do”, I began to see how “passive” I had become towards those things. I started to see I was thinking it was okay that I had been turned down, that I had not received what I wanted or that it was taking a bit of time. Then I started to think, "why do I proclaim to believe in God, why do I pray, fast, seek guidance from the Word of God etc, if I am just going to think like people in the world think? If I am just going to allow time to pass me by and think “oh well, this did not happen, maybe next time”. Nooooo!
The spiritual tools given to us, such as our faith, the name of Jesus, the Bible, prayer, fast, being faithful in our tithes etc, are there to be used effectively. I reasoned with myself that if I am doing these things, I have to do them with belief that what I am doing is not in vain and something great will come out of it. We cannot be robots or even religious, just doing things because we were taught to do them or because we think it is nice to do them. We must do them with 100% belief and trust that through the actions we take we WILL see results. Also be like the persistent widow that the Bible speaks about,
The spiritual tools given to us, such as our faith, the name of Jesus, the Bible, prayer, fast, being faithful in our tithes etc, are there to be used effectively. I reasoned with myself that if I am doing these things, I have to do them with belief that what I am doing is not in vain and something great will come out of it. We cannot be robots or even religious, just doing things because we were taught to do them or because we think it is nice to do them. We must do them with 100% belief and trust that through the actions we take we WILL see results. Also be like the persistent widow that the Bible speaks about,
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18: 1-8
I honestly saw where I was going wrong and now I am doing what God showed me to do. If the same has been happening to you as it did with me, do as God directed me to do and I am sure we will see the desired results in due time.
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