What is God telling you?
What is God telling you with the problems He permits in your life?
The problems you face will either defeat you or
develop you depending on how you respond to them.
Unfortunately most people fail to see how God wants to use
problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly
and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider
what benefit they might bring.
Here are five ways God wants to use the problems in your life:
- God uses problems to DIRECT you. Sometimes God must light a fire
under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new
direction and motivate us to change. Is God trying to get your
attention?
"Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways."
Proverbs 20:30 (GN)
- God uses problems to INSPECT you. People are like tea bags. If you
want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot
water! Has God ever tested your faith with a problem? What do
problems reveal about you? "When you have many kinds of troubles,
you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test
your faith, and this will give you patience." James 1:2-3 (NCV)
- God uses problems to CORRECT you. Some lessons we learn only
through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you
not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned.
Sometimes we only learn the value of something, health, money and a
relationship. By losing it. "It was the best thing that could have
happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws."
Psalm 119:71-72 (LB)
- God uses problems to PROTECT you. A problem can be a blessing in
disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more
serious. Last year a friend was fired for refusing to do something
unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a
problem - but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a
year later when management's actions were eventually discovered.
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good." Genesis
50:20 (NIV)
- God uses problems to PERFECT you. Problems, when responded to
correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your
character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your
character are the only two things you're going to take with you into
eternity. "We can rejoice when we run into problems they help us learn
to be patient. And patience develops strength of Character in us and
helps us trust God more each time we use it; until finally our hope and
faith are Strong and steady." Romans 5:3-4 (LB)
Here's the point: God is at work in your life-even when you do not recognize it or understand it.
But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him. Print this out and read this
regularly. Some of you could probably use this right now!
"YOU ARE BLESSED -- THERE'S NO NEED TO BE STRESSED!"
[ Author Unknown -- from 'inspirational_msgs' ]
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