So, today was pretty stressful. I had trouble getting my medication, and missed two doses. I really wasn’t feeling good, but I think a lot of it was anxiety. However, God was faithful, and got me what I needed (although it was a pretty complicated adventure).
So, I was thinking about all the times God has come through for me. He’s never failed me. if you’re a Christian, you’ve had some difficult times, but God has always been there. He’s come through when it mattered, if not all the time.
When the Israelites complained in the desert about water, or food, or whatever.. They were doubting God and thinking,”Can he really do it?” Now, to be fair, they had seen all his miracles in Egypt in their deliverance, the parting of the Red Sea. Eventually they got manna from Heaven, and then quail, and water every time they ever needed it. God always provided. If they would’ve said,”Well, it looks bad, but remember that time God parted the Red Sea for us and drowned the Egyptians?” or “Remember the time that God passed over our houses and struck down the firstborn of Egypt?” Their perspective would’ve been changed. Yet they were unbelieving and ultimately did not enter the Promised Land.
I think we have more in common with them than we realize. We have been delivered from things, have been protected from things, but when there’s a crisis, we don’t remember all the times God has been faithful, we doubt, we question, we try to control things.
Don’t do that! Don’t Complain! Remind yourself of God’s faithfulness to You, to Your family, to Your children. If you absolutely have to vent, vent to God in private, not just out loud. It’s okay, within reason, to complain to God. It is not okay to complain in His hearing to yourself. Remember the Israelites. Learn from their mistakes.
If you have to make a list and look at it, do it. If you are an adult and a Christian, I can almost guarantee that God has done at least 10 works in Your life, that, when you look back, you remember He took care of you.
You have been carried “by the everlasting arms,”
God loves You, and if Jesus’ atonement was the only thing God ever did for You, and salvation was it, he would’ve done plenty. Yet he is continually faithful, often when we are unfaithful. When you are tempted to complain, and everyone is, try to verbally recall three times that God has taken care of you. Say, ”I may be going through [X] but God is faithful. [Y'] is happening, but remember the time the he did this for me?”
Hope that helps.
Trem