Sunday, September 28, 2008

Small and Weak

Wouldn't it be nice sometimes to just feel overwhelmed by God even when you feel like you can't feel anything?? To know that even when you aren't hearing Him speak loud and clear to you, that He's still speaking? Or when you can't blatantly see Him at work in your life, to know He's still working miracles all around you?? I know He is, ALL THE TIME, but sometimes you aren't as aware of it as you are at other points in your life. Like when you found yourself in a bind and saw God bring you out of it immediately, you were fully aware of His working in your life. But other times it's such a slow process, we aren't sure that He's working at all. I think Satan attacks us with the feeling of loneliness during this time when we don't hear our Father speaking. How do we counteract that?? I think by acting like nothing Satan does has any importance in our lives and to not take it offensively. I heard a sermon by Bill Johnson this past summer where he said just that; that we as Christ-followers should not allow anything Satan does to penetrate our lives. It should not affect us.
This just seems like a hard task to accomplish, though. I don't really know how to just let stuff in life roll off my back entirely. I must say, it would take a pretty strong person to never give in to fear, lust, worry, loneliness, doubt, pride, selfishness, and the list goes on. And most of the time, I don't feel like that strong of a person. Therefore, I have to rely on something completely different than being a strong person. I have to place all my hope in Christ because I know that I truly can accomplish nothing on my own. I know God has big plans for my life, just like He does for all of His other very special children (and of course I know He considers every child very special!), and am also sure that I can't do the things He wants me to do if I have any involvement. So I am currently in constant prayer that He is BIG and STRONG in me because I feel so SMALL and WEAK.

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