My Struggles are About Him
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What about your struggles? Is there any chance, any possibility, that you have been selected to struggle for God’s glory? Have you “been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake” (Philippians 1:29)?
Here is a clue. Do your prayers seem to be unanswered? What you request and what you receive aren’t matching up? Don’t think God is not listening. Indeed he is. He may have higher plans.
Here is another. Are people strengthened by your struggles? A friend of mine can answer yes. His cancer was consuming more than his body; it was eating away at his faith. Unanswered petitions perplexed him. Well-meaning Christians confused him. “If you have faith,” they said, “you will be healed.”
No healing came. Just more chemo, nausea, and questions. He assumed the fault was a small faith. I suggested another answer. “It’s not about you,” I told him. “Your hospital room is a showcase for your Maker. Your faith in the face of suffering cranks up the volume of God’s song.”
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Oh, that you could have seen the relief on his face. To know that he hadn’t failed God and God hadn’t failed him—this made all the difference. Seeing his sickness in the scope of God’s sovereign plan gave his condition a sense of dignity. He accepted his cancer as an assignment from heaven: a missionary to the cancer ward.
A week later I saw him again. “I reflected God,” he said, smiling through a thin face, “to the nurse, the doctors, my friends. Who knows who needed to see God, but I did my best to make him seen.”
Bingo. His cancer paraded the power of Jesus down the Main Street of his world.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Through your problems and mine, may God be seen.
From It’s Not About Me
Copyright (Thomas Nelson, 2007), Max Lucado
Used by permission
Question: What problems are you facing that God could use redeem for His glory in the world?
About this Author: Max Lucado
Hi munyaradzi chayambuka, thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. I would love to read your article but I can’t find it. Can you give us a link to where it is? Thank you.
for the above peace of infomation i was still in my mothers womb i know nothing about God.really god is there its only a meter that on which basis are you standing and view him .in the name of the almighty i confess that i was in the dark of evil but God gives me light and now i see to the far end of his nation.if he is not there it means that me i am also not there. for all the sins i did he grand me peace and prosperity but i still sin not becouse i am a sinner but i don’t manage to control myself so i grand u all which had bleesed by jesus christ to read my article titled “The view of hiumanity to the world critics”
How true that is that humans have different views but unfortunately a point of view will not save you nor will it do anything for your life. You need a “living” God not a dead one. A dead one will not do much for you in your struggles. In order for our faith to be totally challenged it needs a challenge big enough and I find that God is more than a point of view but the hope that we all need because otherwise and without Him where would we go?
human beings have different views some are christians some are not your views only aply to christions can you tell me that every one beliefs that God exist .imagine the traditional heares and other people which did not bilief in the existance of god are they made or die becouse they did not belief in god . Your contribution seams to be bias to monotheist hiow ever its a nice point of view