Help My Fragile Faith
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Do you ever feel like God has not lived up to your expectations in some particular circumstance of your life? Perhaps you have believed… yet nothing has happened. When you feel confused and wonder if God has let you down, you have a choice to make.
You can choose to be offended at God’s seeming silence and disinterest and allow doubt to slip into your heart, or . . . you can choose to believe God loves you with a lavish love and has your best interest at heart — even when things make no sense to you.
Jesus addressed this very thing. In His words to John the Baptist He says what our hearts still need to hear today:
“Blessed are those who don’t doubt me” (Matthew 11:6, The Living Bible).
Times come to all of us when God’s activity in our lives seems to make no sense. We wonder at the circumstances we find ourselves in and we may even feel abandoned by God. We could easily slip into doubting our great God.
Yet God tells us…
• He will never leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5).
• He has lavished His great love on us (1 John 3:1).
• He cares about the burdens we carry and invites us to cast them on Him to carry for us (1 Peter 5:7).
• He invites us to learn His ways and find rest for our weary and burdened souls (Matthew 11:2).
If your heart is heavy today because you feel confused about what God is doing in your life, know that you have a choice to make.
You can let doubt in Him slip in and permeate your soul… or you can let these truths penetrate your heart. Each will bring its own result. Choose carefully.
Jesus promises you will be blessed when you choose to keep trusting Him even when it seems to make no sense.
Lord, please help me to keep my fragile faith intact and leave my hand in Yours. I know You will be true to Your word. May I trust You today as my Faithful God. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
Questions: Do you ever feel like God has let you down? What choice do you then make? What does Jesus promise when you choose to keep trusting Him?
About the Author Gail Rodgers
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Though we are made in God`s image but we are inferior by wearing the physical house called body.The feeling of being abandoned by God is natural,its occur to whosoever that wears the earthly vessel. The fresh responses to stimuli of our environment, it sees, hears ,feels and got weary.Thus, communicates same to our system and the soul and body responses negatively against GOD.Because we are chldren of the kingdom, begotten by Christ, the third being in us, the spirit, which walk with our creator will resist the thinking of the body and soul.There and then, we start experincing new strenght and courage to renew our trust and confidence in God. Jesus cried on the cross:Father, father, why had thou forsaken me. DID GOD FORSOOK JESUS? NO WAY.God was there but the pain was unbearable for Jesus. After the pain,He triumph over all principalities and powers and is given a name that is above every other name in heaven and on earth. Moreso, He is seated at the right hand side of the father. LEARN a lesson. IT does not matter what we pass through HE is with us. He says:I will never leave you nor abadon us. AS He inspected the welfare of Adam and Eve in the garden of eden the same does He to HIS CHILDREN.He is with us(Emmanuel-God with us, HE CARES)—-akanimo peters
My heart goes out to you Yara.
The only thing that makes sense to me is the Sovereignty of God. HE is in control and will do WHAT He wants, WHEN He wants, to WHOM He wants and for any REASON He wants. HE is the ALL Powerful Creator of this Universe. i mean, i don’t’ know about you but as believers in Jesus, we serve quite the MIGHTY GOD! People seem to think they shouldn’t even be sick IF God loves them so much or horrible things shouldn’t happen to them yet…don’t the Scriptures talk about how it PLEASED God to “bruise His Son”? Don’t you think it was pretty painful hanging on that Cross? Did God the Father spare His own Son from trouble and pain?
When i saw the movie The Passion of Christ, i literally started crying and saying almost too loudly in my seat, “STOP IT!” during the beating scenes. i was becoming angered by what i was seeing!
It didn’t make any “sense” to me why God would make such an awful “plan” yet…it doesn’t matter what i think does it? It was HIS plan and i don’t need to understand it anymore. i keep Praising Him anyway.
i’ve had SO much horror in my life even since childhood YET i continue to Love and Honor Him bec ultimately, the reward of His Kingdom promises will OUT weigh all this earthly sorrow.
“he who ENDURES to the end…”
i’ve stopped trying to figure God out. i only concentrate on my Relationship with Him and obeying His Word bec then and ONLY then will “His love abide in me.” according to the Scriptures.
I can definitley relate to this devotional. In 2004 I lost my first child in the 5th month of my pregnancy. I was devastated and it took me a long time, with God’s help, to recuperate from this blow. At times I wondered, “God, how could this have happened to me, I am your daughter, you are supposed to take care of me and my family, what happened.” At that moment I did feel like God let me down, yet in the midst of that unbearable pain I felt Gods love and comfort, and I could literally feel Him carry me through. Later on he allowed me to understand that everything, everything in God’s hands is perfectly fine, and that my little girl was perfectly fine in his loving hands. God allowed me to become a mother 3 years later, to the most beautiful baby girl I have ever seen (this pregnancy is a miracle in itself and I could talk about the amazing mercy and miracle of God all day, but I will leave that for another blog). The amazing thing about my daughter is that when I lost my first daughter I would constantly try to picture what she would have looked like, and I always pictured her with long dark curly hair and indian color skin. Amazingly, my daughter was born with these features and when I look at her today (she is 2) she looks exactly like that little girl I pictured playing somewhere in a beautifl flower garden in heaven. God is amazing, and his love does endure forever. He is always with his children and desires to bless them and give them the desires of their heart. Trials and tribulations will come and may actually shatter our world to pieces, yet in the midst of that, when we are no longer even able to stand up, God will carry us through.
I lost another child (a little baby boy angel) at the beginning of this year, for no reason that I could explain. His heart simply stopped beating in the 4th month of gestation, and for a minute I thought that I would not endure this one and even tried to argue with God and ask why? But yet again God’s presence and word came over me and said, “can what is created, argue with its Maker.” There is no sense in trying to argue with God, he knows the future and knows what is best for us. I realized this when a few weeks later the doctor told me that my son had died because he had what is known as Trisomy 18, in which there is an extra 18th gene. Most babies don’t make it, and those who do make it until birth, don’t usually make it past their first birthday. This information actually brought me a sense of peace and the amazing feeling that God did love me. He knows me inside out, and knew that I would not have been able to surpass having seen and lived with my child for a whole year and then see him pass. That would have been absolutley unbearable for me. So in His wonderful mercy, God allowed my child to live until his 4th month of gestation, and now he too is in the arms of our heavenly father, who loves my children more that I could ever imagine. Again, just know that everything in God’s hands is perfectly fine, so make sure that you are undoubtedly in those beautiful hands. God Bless (sorry for being so long, God is just so amazing).
I just wanted to tell Nancin that she isn’t alone at all. I feel the same way at times and feel like that we are fighting a losing battle. But then out of nowhere God steps into the mess and makes a way. Right now I am out of a job and looking for work which seems almost impossible to me but then when I read my bible and I know that God is going to meet my needs(because he says that he will) not my desires but my needs. I know that he will make a way for me and for you too. I will be praying everyday for you and your needs to be met. Just remember there is someone praying for you.
Thank you for this devotional today. I really needed it. Some of these things were going thru my mind, but I know that God knows best and no matter how bad it is right now he is with me.
At times it look as if i’ll be consumed by my problems,when i look around is like i’m all alone on earth to the point that i tought no one prays for me.I did’nt have any choise than to trust in Him again.
He created me,He knows my name before i was even formed in my mother’s womb.His plans for me are for good and not evil and He will take me to that expected END.
Help my fragile Faith JESUS.