We should know in life the things that come around us can tackle us. Life at certain moments can look just plain hard! Life at certain moments may even look unfair.
Whatever we dream of, it does not always want to turn out like our aspirations and often we do seem to miss the goal.
There are those who know God and dare to argue with Him, because they do not understand His Ways, nor why such horrible things can happen in this world and such bad things happen to them who love God.
How many of us would not like like Gideon a proof from God, Him shoulder tapping us.
You would think an angel would be evidence enough. It’s not like seeing angels were common occurrences. {How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things}
Whatever happens in our life, whatever directions we do have to go, we always should remember that we are just little elements in the creation of God. We also should remember that when we are wiling to give ourselves in His Hands, Jehovah God shall be willing to help us. He already showed many times to be there for His people. At all times, even when they were not so honest to God or when they had forgotten Him, He always was prepared to come close to them when they were calling Him, or even when they were not thinking of Him, to remind them of Him or to send them a prophet or messenger.
People had asked God several times for certain things, like food but also kings and judges, and He gave it them.
Gideon seemed a shaky kind of guy for a judge. I always assumed these God-chosen Judges would be natural leaders of the super-hero type. Like Samson, a not so ordinary guy with a hot temper, and Hulk-type strength. Or Deborah the wonder woman whose wisdom was legendary, and to whom men submitted. {How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things}
For us human beings we would like to have an easy comfortable life without any problems. Be sure, that shall be possible … but we shall have to work for it …
God never promised me comfort and ease on this earth. He never promised an immunity to change. {How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things}
We should remember it was mankind itself which reposted against God. Man did not think God was honest to them and kept something precious behind. In their rebellion they ate from the forbidden fruit to get to know “Knowledge of good and evil” and as such came to know that evil. And that is what we have to feel more than once in our life. The bad things surround us. But we must not always think when there is something we do not like, like having to move places or to go on, that it means that would be bad. It can be a next step in our life which can bring us so much more goodness. Therefore we, when in doubt sometimes do good to switch our prayer like interior designer Loree Johns the wife of preacher Randy does
Ok, Ok, I get it. You are opening the floodgates to a new opportunity, new souls to love and nurture. So help me to find peace about this, because like Gideon, I needed proof you really want to uproot and upend me. {How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things}
Asking Jehovah God for guidance and comfort He shall show the way and make sure the proofs of His nearness and His Plan shall become clearer. Coming to trust in Him and hoping to fit in His Way your anxiety shall ease.
The sick feeling abated. And I could feel excitement for a new chapter warring with my pain of leaving those I love. I could do this. So, I met with my other designer and staff, and we figured a way for me to work in OKC half of the time. I’m thankful for such a great team who will keep the business thriving when I am three hours away. {How to Be All In When Asked to do Hard Things}
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God in his infinite wisdom only reveals what we need to know in the here and now.
It seems like God’s plans are rarely our plans, at least not in my world.
As always God has a Plan.
It’s time for that wall to come down once for all, and for me to be real with you. I will share my joys along with my pain and sorrows. I will give you insight into what helps me kept it all together on the rocky road of a broken world. I will open my heart and soul to you so we can complete this hard journey on earth together.
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What I have found on my journey so far:
-God is the only place I can find true Peace.
-He says “BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD,” for people like me who have a hard time sitting.
–Joy is a choice.
-His amazing Grace releases me from my mess and allows me to walk forever free.
–He loves me fierce and reckless.
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Preceding
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Additional reading
- What is life?
- Monotomy of life
- Your life the sum total of all your choices
- When you don’t know what to do and hate yourself
- Struggles of life
- Good and bad things in this world
- Trouble is coming
- Profitable disasters
- Self inflicted misery #2 Weakness of human race
- Forbidden Fruit in the Midst of the Garden 3
- Out of the seed of Eve
- Suffering produces perseverance
- From pain to purpose
- From Despair to Victory
- Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life
- Only the contrite self, sick of its pretensions, can find salvation
- It is a free will choice
- Choose you this day whom ye will serve
- The business of this life
- A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses
- Thirst for happiness and meaning
- Major challenges and great things happening in our life
- Looking to the East and the West for Truth
- The truth is very plain to see and God can be clearly seen
- Examining the world around us and of our own life, building up a legacyChange
- Leaving behind the lives we have touched.
- Inculturation today calling for a different attitude
- To create a great journey
- Power in the life of certain
- Created to live in relation with God
- We may not be ignorant to get wisdom
- Being religious has benefits even in this life
- Healthy life can be found in sacred books
- We should use the Bible every day
- Fragments from the Book of Job #1: chapters 1-12
- Fragments from the Book of Job #2: chapters 12-20
- Fragments from the Book of Job #3: chapters 21-26
- Fragments from the Book of Job #7 Epilogue
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #4 Transitoriness #3 Rejoicing in the insistence
- Dealing with Disappointment
- Feeling Lost? Read This…
- Determine the drive
- Not holding back and getting out of darkness
- From Winterdarkness into light of Spring
- Life and attitude of a Christian
- Two states of existence before God
- Humility and the Fear of the Lord
- A Living Faith #8 Change
- A Living Faith #10: Our manner of Life #2
- Be happy that the thorn bush has roses
- Life in gratitude opens glory of God
- Not he who prays most or fasts most is the greatest saint
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Related
- The roles of Deborah, Gideon, and Jephthah
- Life: In Progress
- Mid-Year Realizations
- Goals without Plans are just wishes
- Living within a Battlefield
- Spiritual life or Spiritual Death and the Zombie Apocalypse!
- People leave
- Living Intentionally
- Ego vs Spirit
- 1061 Goodness
- 1062 Badness
- Pace
- When Childhood Isn’t Fun or Easy
- The Key to Successful Living
- Week 4: How You See Your Job
- Change for God
- Thought For The Day The Twelve Steps are foundation stones for the recovery process. Foundation stones are designed for building on.
- No Fear…
- Marching orders.
- God’s Way Works