We all have times when you feel like God has abandoned you, and you pray and pray and you wonder if He’s even listening. I’ve had plenty of these times in my life.
Usually, I can look back and wonder how I got through such bad times. At one point in my life I’d lost my job; we lost our home and had to move to a small apartment that my brother-in-law owned. I had lost my mom several years before and as this was going on, my father died. A very dark time in my life. I felt like I’d been abandoned.
But I wasn’t trusting the Lord then. I started to trust, slowly. Looking back, this was a good thing because life for me got tougher. I learned to trust Jesus more. As time went on my faith just got stronger. My situation never got easier; I was just able to lean on the arms of the Lord and that was a comfort.
We want to make the hurting times go away. We pray for God to just come in and change everything. I’ve found out that it doesn’t happen that way. If you have faith, the one that changes is you.
Of course, I have a song; Even If by MercyMe. This song speaks volumes about trusting the Lord.
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