Are you puzzling through making hard decisions today. Does it seem like everyone else knows what to do except you? Slow down and relax. Jesus told us that everything in life boils down to just two things…loving God and loving our neighbor. I have discovered that when I put aside all my trying to figure everything out and simply choose to love, that God takes control. He stills storms, multiplies bread and forgives sin, then guides me right down the road He has chosen all alonf!
Hagar had literally come to the end of the road. In a strange combination of doing what was asked of her and one bad choice her life could have ended in tragedy. But the God who sees us as we are and still loves had not forgotten her.
No matter what you are facing. No matter the missed opportunities or mistakes of the past God is watching over us and stands ready to help. So many things we do are for drawing attention to our situation in hopes that someone will come with a solution. We wear ourselves out trying to be good enough but we feel we have failed when no one notices or sees. This morning the great news is that our God is the God who sees and it is enough. He knows our hearts and will not only make a way in the wilderness, He also promises to walk it with us. He is the seeing God Who we see today with eyes of faith!
Do you ever wonder while passing through a night of tears what good could ever come of it? Does it seem that just when you had hopes things would get better – another crisis appeared? Why would a loving God purposely allow us to suffer? I can still remember going to church, the first Sunday after my mother’s death. A well meaning friend simply asked how I was doing. As I started to answer emotion like a tidal wave overwhelmed me and I sat in the pew weeping. The friend who had asked just put his arm over my shoulder and sat with me till I could catch my breath. I had not known how deep those waters were until I found myself drowning in them and yet they are the waters each of us must cross.
Life’s most important question is not how to avoid pain but who we turn to for comfort at that moment. Are you hurting tonight? Feeling alone or even angry? God has not forgotten you, is not away doing something more important or waiting for you to get back to normal. There is no way to be prepared without Him. He is right at your side ready with His comfort. God is in those exact moments giving us not only His comfort but also His gift to carry that comfort to others who wait just down the road in our lives.
Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:4
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