“You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his
son, so the Lord your God chastens you. Therefore you shall keep the
commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him. For the
Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs that flow out of valleys and hills.”
Deuteronomy
8:5-7 (NKJV)
No one
likes feeling like they’re in trouble, especially not with God. If we are
honest with ourselves sometimes in those not so fun seasons or seasons of
questioning everything around us and in us it is easy to feel like we have been
put on Gods “naughty list.” We have all been there. We have all been in and
through difficult and trying times, but what it is so important to realize in
those times is that God is setting you up for something absolutely wonderful
and amazing, something far beyond what you can ask, think or imagine (Ephesians
3:20). When we are in these places or seasons we need to be diligent and
committed to walking in the ways of the Lord and staying faithful to His plan
for our lives. If we don’t stay committed to God and seeing his plan to
fulfillment our vision of Gods faithfulness and goodness becomes clouded and we
aren’t able to see that something great lies just ahead. Then exactly what we don’t
want to happen happens, we end up staying longer in a place we never wanted to
be in to begin with because we haven’t allowed God to do the things in us he
needs to, to be able to fully prepare us for what is ahead. I truly believe that just around the corner of your trial or
difficult season is something so beautiful that you will look back on this time
and say “it was so worth it.”
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