Mountains
March 22nd, 2012Comments 0
Why does everything have to be so difficult?
I’m positive I’m not the only one who has asked that question. No matter what I do, or how hard I try, it seems as though the walls in front of me are impenetrable. I’m trying to breathe; my heart is searching for the other side. Yet, one obstacle piles onto another and the walls just grow thicker—the mountains are daunting, they multiply and climb above the clouds.
The more I am trying to be strong and hold everything together the more I become hardened inside. Then I am susceptible to fall into the trap of, “Why is it working for everyone but me?” I see the people around me, and become discouraged that things tend to come easier for them.
What I have come to realize is that as my circumstances become unbreakable, I must become breakable. When I’m breakable beyond my own fixing the only thing there is to do is let God take every piece of me and put me back together.
Being breakable is not negative; it is not weakness. Rather it is the point that allows God to move in the most powerful way. God takes people through different trials because of the different purpose He has for each of us. It is love, and a love that doesn’t want to leave you stagnant, in one place. It’s love that wants to push you farther. “I am weak, but He is strong” is more than part of a Sunday school song now. I have to let Him break me because only He knows how to put everything back together in a way that essentially will strengthen me from the inside out.
This inner strength is a power that knows no end. It only accelerates and advances. Through the circumstances that are outside of my control I must choose to remain in this power and I know I will be bolder, and equipped to handle anything. This power comes from an unseen resource but that has no limits; it comes from the One who sees beyond mountains.
We all are in a battle and we live in an atmosphere of conflict, but we are not alone and we needn’t be afraid. We should have peace because of what and WHO we have within us and not what it around us. God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us. He is Sovereign God; He is in control.
There are things outside of my jurisdiction; I can’t reach the solutions by myself. So I decide to trust in my Creator. He sees the purpose in my trials. He knows how to shape me into who He has specifically designed me to be.
Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. (Philippians 4:12-13 MSG)
Take heart; Christ has overcome the world.
“Neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:39
