The Change Maker

Are you letting difficult people, your past or suffering in the present keep you from intimate relationship with God? Are you saying when this is different then I will be close to God? When I am different I will draw near?  When I stop this addiction, change my attitude, believe more or get organized or have time then I will seek His face.  Has doubt flooded your heart?  Has fear overcome you?

 We try to fix ourselves and our lives apart from God. We try to save ourselves and others.  We are afraid He might not do it like we want.  Or when we want.  Or the way we want.  "I can't trust Him."  I can't let go of my life.   It might be painful.  I don't want to hurt anymore.  When we try to protect ourselves from pain we cannot feel the joy.  When we open ourselves to feeling the pain and going to Him as our comforter, the joy is so great the suffering is a minor not a major anymore.  When we confess our doubt and lack of faith, can God really do what He says He will do?  Our faith is strengthened. We experience His fullness.  It is like a mother who suffers greatly in the labor of having her child.  When she sees and holds that precious child, creation of God, the importance of the experience of the pain fades in compassion.  There is no more tears, fears or doubts, just laughter and happiness and excitement.  It is the birth you have waited so long for.  Finally it has arrived.  That is all that matters.  It is Jesus in you that has come to fruition.

You don't go through these things to get to God. You go through God to these things. God changes us and people and circumstances. We don't change them and us and then go to Jesus. Your relationship with others does not determine your relationship with God. God is the maker. Jesus made way for our relationship with God.  We are totally accepted, loved, forgiven.  He said that He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it.  He is the redeemer.  He makes wrong things right.  He makes things whole. It will not be the way you hoped for or planned.  It will be so much better.  He is so much bigger that we can imagine.  He works in such bigger ways.  Everyone and everything that is touched will be in His hand for good.  You will be amazed.  It will be a grand miracle.  It will be in and through Him.  In His time and His way.  His glory will be revealed in a way you never would imagine.  God is great, God is good!

And if difficult people or your circumstances haven't changed. If you feel weak and of little faith.  Hang on.  Your joy is in the Lord, in the love relationship between you and Him.  It is not in your life getting smooth.  It may never be easy.  But that cannot be your hope.  Your hope is Jesus, Father and Son.  Experiencing His presence.  That is where you trust people to Him.  THat is where you are willing to let circumstances go.  That is where the fears melt into courage.  That is where faith grows.  That is where love is.  You are the one changed.  You say where did this love come from.  I can love the unloveable.  I can find peace and joy in all circumstances. You know your God is big and mighty to save.  It is Him in me, living.