Our Great God!
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
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Why do we panic? Problems are never as big as they seem, at least, not if you are a believer. If you believe that you serve a God that is bigger than your circumstances than when trouble comes, you would relax, do the things you can do, and trust Him to do the things you cannot do. Some of us worry easily, probably due to pass experiences. It takes so much energy to worry; whereas, it is easy to relax and let God. Why can't we trust God? Why do we carry our burdens? I don't know about you, but I notice that I am a nervous wreck when I am not reading the Word of God. Whenever my spiritual life is shaky, I get in trouble. I become fearful, I worry, I panic and I make myself literally sick. As I get older, I realize that life's problems are inevitable, but there are moments of triumphs as well. I needed to find a way to cope and move forward in order to be the person God intended me to become, and the person He created me to be. Someone I love use to say that eventually everything works out and worrying is futile. If I only I listened!
I have encountered various challenges in my life. I experiences the loss of a parent at an early age, I have experienced numerous academic, social and professional rejections, I battled depression, and some physical ailments but I recently noticed that the difficulties vary but the end results always the same: God has always proven Himself to be faithful and my worries, my efforts and stressing never productive. Don't get me wrong, I always brought everything to the Lord in prayers. I believed that God was real but what I did not realized for a long time was the fact that I trusted myself more than I trusted Him. I trusted my own ability. How silly was that! I cannot do anything without God. My favorite biblical quote has always been "I can do all things through Christ" Philippians 4:13 and yet I have always tried to do it alone until predictable failure then and only then I run to God. My pride always get in the way of my intimate relationship with God, but God would never let me have it my way. He loves me way too much for that. I wish I learned to relax and let God a long time ago and I am sure I would have had a different life much sooner. A peaceful life and a relationship with God based on trust. I do not want the children in my life to struggle with similar issues that is why I am teaching them to trust God. I always pray with them each and every time they bring up an issue, even if it minor or about school, a sibling, a teacher, a friend, a gift they desire or a medication they have to take. I always tell them that God is the healer and not the pill. I am teaching them early that God is bigger than anything they can face and imagine and I hope they listen. I hope that God is their first resort and not their last. Children learn more from our behavior than by our words. I am now practicing what I preach.
Are you jumpy or calm? Do you trust God to help you deal with the challenges of your life? Do you get up and go out the door or do you spend time with God in meditation? Do you panic when you cannot make the mortgage payment? Do you get depressed when you are ill? Do you go crazy when you lose a job? The children are observing. You may not notice but you are shaping their character and their faith. You have a responsibility to guide them right and help then transition to adulthood as confident, Bible believing and God trusting individuals. Don't magnify your problems in their presence or otherwise, but magnify God's power and ability to work things out in your favor; After all, it is a promise of God according to Romans 8:28. Teach the children that they can be anything and they can beat anything for when they are weak, God is strong. Teach them to live with, peace, power and faith in God. Magnify God for nothing is impossible to Him.
Praise the Lord!
