You Ask....He Answers

When you ask God to lead you, you better be willing to follow. When you ask God now what, you better be prepared for His answer. When you ask God help me, you better be aware that His help isn’t always what we think it should be.

I’ve asked God for help a lot lately. More in the last few months than I think I have in my entire 34 years of existence. And you know what He has helped me. He hasn’t made anything easier in fact I believe things have gotten harder. Living the life God wants me to live has increase my hardships…that sounds almost wrong to say, true but wrong. So why then am I living the life God wants for me if it isn’t getting any easier? I have no idea except that my heart’s desire is to please Him. So sure my hardships have multiplied a little but so has my joy and peace. I have total and complete joy in knowing that I am living within God’s will and I have peace that even in these hard times He is carrying me and covering me. He isn’t leading me into the storm to be washed away, He is leading me through the storm to get that much closer to Him and His glory.

But what in the world am I supposed to do in the hard times. You know the ones I feel pressed on all sides but not crushed. Rejoice. Say what? Yes I am supposed to rejoice in my sufferings if my sufferings are in Christ. I am supposed to look at my hard, ugly, pressing moments and go thank you God, Praise you God. How?! Because my God got me through the last ugly and He will get me through this ugly and the next and the next and so on. Not only will He get me through the ugly but I will come out on the other side more like Him. I will come out closer to Him, more in tune with His will for me, and one step closer to my God and for that I will count it all joy when life get’s tough.

This is the day that the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it! Good day, bad day, ugly day, hard day, easy day, long day, whatever day He made it and He is in it with me so for that I will rejoice everyday good, bad, or ugly.