So the plan for today was to have a really productive day. I had a “to do list” and was off to a great start. Ok, so now it’s lunch time and I need a car wash…. Costco! $1.50 for a jumbo hot dog & a soda and $7.95 car wash. As I am about to enter the car wash I got a phone call so I pulled over and took the call. ”POP!” My radiator cracked in my Jeep and it started smoking and leaking coolant like crazy. I used to like my Jeep up until the last few months it has been acting up on me, plus we had a motor on one of the windows go out.
What did I do?
I honestly laughed and praised God for the fact that I do have a car to break down on me. I thought of this verse in James…
2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. James 1:1-3
A moment of frustration was calmed by God’s Word as I was reminded to have JOY! This trial is such a small outward circumstance. There are so many other things going on in my life as well as in the lives of others that are so much bigger than this. God is bigger than all these trials. How will we respond to them? God will allow us to be tested so that we prevail and draw closer to Him because He wants to build us up! Satan will tempt you so that you will fail and feel separated form God.
God will test so that you prevail, Satan will tempt so that you fail.
Thank makes me think of John 10:10…. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Lastly, when my radiator cracked on me today I realized that God is in total control. He knew that I had a lot to get done. He knew that this would happen to me today. Maybe God just wanted to get my attention so that this small trial could build me up. As I was thinking and meditating on the Word I thought of Philippians 4:4 which says, ” Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”
Are you going through a trial right now? if so, REJOICE! Again I say REJOICE! In this life we live today we are always walking into a storm, in the middle of a storm or coming out of a storm. God is good ALL the time!
In His Mighty Grip,
Mark
AMEN, to that…
I’m going through some trials right now, looking for a job, hoping that God will bless me with one soon and some times I get very discourage.
But I have to remind my self that God is in control of my life, and we have to give Him all the Glory.
Thanks for your post.
Patty