"Often, what God does is He places us in a crucible, because He's waiting for that moment where we are prepared for that great calling that is coming. And so maybe you're here tonight and life is tough, maybe you've lost your job, or you've lost your girlfriend, or maybe you've lost your girlfriend to your best friend, so maybe you've lost your girlfriend and your best friend...you've lost your meaning in life.
There are moments in life where everything goes bad, and you wonder, 'is God even paying attention?' But God calls out the prepared. And what you may not realize is that God is forming your character, He is forming your person-hood, He is forging and reshaping and refining who you are. And while you want to make progress forward, God is trying to make progress inward. Because the places that He wants to take you, the journey He wants to invite you on, the pilgrimage He is calling you to, that original life that you long for, is going to require you to step-up to an entirely different level of living. And so that call to greatness requires that we go through a crucible in our lives."
- Erwin McManus, The Call To An Original Life (podcast)
Are you going through some difficult times lately? Have you begun to question God? Do you feel that God has forgotten you? Well, maybe He has another plan in store for you, one that you can't even imagine, one that will totally surprise you when it is revealed. Instead of asking why, we should trust that everything happens for a reason, and know that God loves us enough to bring us through some momentary pain, so that we might enjoy a lifetime of truly living in happiness!
2 comments:
i may be losing my mind, but I thought you had another post up here today????? hmmmm....where did it go?
Was busy adding pictures to it!
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