Difficult decisions. Heartbreaking moments. Losses that are painful.
I am sure we all could tell the stories.
I was raised in a church home. I believed in God at a very young age. Although I have wavered and failed at times I have always returned to the God of my salvation. My experience has also evolved over the years.
We all go through the storms of life. The hard times come. I don’t like the hard times. I do all I can to avoid the times I am scared.
I am in one of those scary times.
Will God come through for me this time?
Even with past answered prayers, there is always another hard time where our faith is once again tested.
I never expected this one.
It makes you wonder if anything is too hard for God. That seems like a silly thing to think but when you are going through the hard times you think a lot of thoughts.
I replay all the stories of God’s miracles and answered prayers during my lifetime. I know that God CAN answer my prayer but the scary part is how will He answer it. He doesn’t always answer it the way we want. That’s the scary part.
Sometimes God chooses not to heal or provide the miracle we are asking for.
I immediately think of a scene in "The Chosen" when Little James approached Jesus about why he had not been healed. James had seen the healings that Jesus had performed and now Jesus was asking Him to go out and minister to others. How could he do it when he hadn’t been healed?
Although this is not an actual Biblical account, it explains a lot about why Jesus doesn’t always heal in the way we expect.
James asks why he hasn’t been healed despite being give. The power to heal others. Jesus explains that his endurance despite his physical ailment serves a higher purpose, demonstrating that faith exists even through suffering.
Watch the scene here: https://youtu.be/KZDvcEkjthA?si=6nahtFW0pY9tOGCQ
This means that our faith has to be strong even if our prayers are not answered the way we want them be answered. Do we only believe if God does what we want?
That’s a difficult belief but we can’t always expect to have our way. It takes more faith to believe if prayers are not answered than when they are. Our faith is only strong if it is based on God and not what He does for us.
