Monday, August 06, 2007
When something does not work out?
Ultimately the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. And what jesus says? “Choose hope”
The questions for us is-
1) Will you keep going when you don’t know why?
2) When you can’t get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, “My Lord,” even though his ways are not clear to you?
3) Will you keep going with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster, and live in hope that one day God will set everything right?
4) Will you trust that God is good?
There is one person we know in the Bible is Jacob, who wrestled with the man throughout one night and realized afterwards that it was God. The man crippled Jacob’s hip and told him to let go, and Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
When the man saw Jacob would not quit, he blessed him and gave him a new name : Israel. “You have struggled with God and with men and you have overcome.”
Why does God wrestle with Jacob? Why not just give him a blessing outright?
I don’t know the whole answers to those questions. I think it has something to do with the fact that God prizes that quality in the human spirit that will not give up.
God wants greatness in soul- people who will endure, wrestle, persevere, refuse to quit, and cling on to his goodness even when there is much they can’t see clearly.
`even when nothing seems so, I will hold on.
joallisonagnes/8/06/2007 01:53:00 PM
