Luke 22: 32 But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers.”
33 Peter said, “Lord, I am ready to go to prison with you, and even to die with you.”
34 But Jesus said, “Peter, let me tell you something. Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me.”
there are times when we think we are ready or strong enough and yet we really are not... God uses time to prepare us for the things that we have to face in our lives... and we continuously think that we are strong enough.. then the wind will blow and we are weak... it doesn't take very much to make us weak actually.. any time our reality is shaken we become weak... and if the enemy uses deception as his greatest tool.. it is no wonder we fall so easily.. we cannot see past the physical sight of things...
a few years ago.. I really thought I was ready to walk into God's will and purpose for me.. . I felt I really believed what God said to me.. and I was ready to go forward... but God didn't send me forward.. He sent me into the waiting room... as I look back from that time to now.. I see that I would not have lasted against the winds of deception.. I would have become broken and useless.. and all the world would have seen it... I am not sure I am ready now either.. but I know that I am coming to a place where the deception.. the stories.. they don't matter anymore.. if they are true or if they aren't.. they really don't matter because none of the stories change anything God said... so I am to stand on God alone.. and trust in Him.. and walk on the water with Him holding my hand.. no one else.. it is good to have affirmation and confirmation of what God said.. but I think too many times it causes us to become dependent on what man says above what God has said.. then things look ugly or sound wrong.. and we are shaken... sometimes to the place where we turn away... but God is always standing right beside us.. ready to put us back on the right path...
Jesus pleaded in prayer for Peters faith... and I believe He is daily pleading before God for our faith to be strong too.. so that when we repent for our doubts and our fears.. or even wrong doing... God is there.. ready to restore us.. and we are stronger in the Lord because of the situation... I have been shaken and tossed to and fro.. yet the base of what God said to me stands strong in me.. the doubt and the fears are becoming weaker.. the faith in God is becoming stronger... I still can't see how He is going to do it... sometimes I feel as if I have messed things up too much for them to be fixed.. yet I know God's character.. and He knew how many times I would falter and fall before He told me the story... so I also believe He is going to iron out all that I have made a mess of.. and make the path straight again... because Jesus is somewhere before the throne of grace.. pleading on our behalf.. and our faith is becoming stronger because of the trials and tribulations... and I thank God for that!
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