Always time for uplifting

When you face difficult times in your life it is amazing how many people write you cards, send you notes or even devotional books that they themselves have found to be helpful in their past experiences. The following is an excerpt from a daily devotional book called "Streams in the desert" by L. B Cowman, updated by Jim Reimann.

May 27th: "Bring them here to me" (Matthew 14:18)

"Do you find yourself at this very moment surrounded with needs, and nearly overwhelmed with difficulties, trials and emergencies? Each of these is God's way of providing vessels for the Holy Spirit to fill. If you correctly understand their meaning, you will see them as opportunities for receiving new blessings and deliverance you can receive in no other way.

The Lord is saying to you, "Bring them here to me". Firmly hold the vessels before Him, in faith and in prayer. Remain still before Him, and stop your own restless working until He begins to work. Do nothing that He Himself has not commanded you to do. Allow God time to work and He surely will. Then the very trials that threatened to overcome you with discouragement and disaster will become God's opportunity to reveal His grace and glory in your life, in ways you have never known before."

This is a powerful passage from this particular day that really sticks with me. As humans we are so fast to panic and want to fix things right here and right now. Our patience and ability to wait for God and His timing is amazing. We think that we know what is best for us. We think that we have all the answers and therefore we think that we can fix our situations. However this is not the case at all. We must give it up to God and wait...... Wait for Him to speak to us...... Wait for His timing..... Wait for God.......

God knows the plan for our lives. The trials we face make us often wonder why God sends us down the paths that he does as we struggle through our own desires and frustrations when things do not work out. It is in this time that we must wait. For myself, patience is a difficult thing. I know what I want. I want a family. I want a career. I want more children. Will God bless me with these things? I am not sure...... It is with patience I must wait and seek His will for my life.