I can easily say that life as a Christian is a struggle. We all face trials and uncertainty in our lives as we walk through life as a follower of Christ. I often times find myself relying on externals, and looking for the end result. Desiring for the struggle to come to an end, so that I can feel relief from the pain and the hurt that often comes with it. I forget that God has a plan for my life and that he is using the struggles, the burdens, the heartaches, to draw me closer to him. I want to trust God to do his work in me, and in the lives of those I love, but often times I ask God "why me". Instead of trusting God that he who began a good work will be faithful to complete it. Psalm 37;4-6 says Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in Him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. If I delight in him and make him first in my life, praising him, thanking him, giving him the glory in all things, my desire will be to please him more and more, and my mind will be less focused on the struggles of life. And in doing so I learn to trust God in his plans and allow him to give me the desires of my heart. That doesn't mean I will get what I want in life, but that I will receive assurance of his promise to complete that which he began. Lord thank you for what your doing in my life and help me to trust you to do the work.
