For the past month, I have been struggling a lot with patience and compassion and not going off the edge when opportunities to be those things come my way. I mostly struggle with patience, specifically with my family. It is so easy to get frustrated with your family because you know they aren’t going to just leave you. If you live with them, you are with them whenever you come home. They are a safe place to let your feelings out freely. I think I have been getting a little too comfortable doing this and I always realize it after the fact. It tends to eat at me, but it is hard to not let things get to you when you know things are coming and you try to avoid them, but they keep coming right at you.
I have been praying for patience and compassion. I’m sure you have heard that when you pray for patience God gives you opportunities to be patient or when you ask for compassion, He gives you opportunities to be compassionate and so on… God has definitely been giving me an over amount of opportunities to be patient and compassionate. I know it says in 1 Corinthians 10:13: “No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.” I know that it isn’t an over amount, but the right amount because God is giving me these opportunities and He won’t give me anything I cannot handle. This is sometimes hard to take in because I know I can handle it, but when will it end?
It is so easy to be compassionate and patient towards others when you don’t have to deal with them all the time. God has given me a huge heart for Africa and God has called me to go there and one day I will. I do believe though that I have a lot of spiritual growing and learning to do. I consider the things I struggle with and learn only a preparation for what is laying in the path ahead of me. God has an amazing way of teaching people things, though hard at times…okay, maybe a lot of the time…He still sees us through it and we WILL come out alive!
God is definitely teaching me something and I know I will live, but sometimes it feels like it is never ending. I also know that I will become stronger with the challenges put in front of me. The hurdles I jump will only prepare me for the hurdles to come. Even though it seems tough during the struggle, I need to constantly remind myself that I will only become stronger then when I began. And the strength comes from Christ alone. I encourage you to take the opportunities ahead and take them as challenges to become better equipped for the next time you have to face something that is a challenge to you. God has your back and He isn’t leaving anytime soon…in fact He is never leaving and you can always find strength in any situation from Him. “On the day I called, You answered me; You increased strength within me.” Psalm 138:3 “I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13
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