When you see a chart for any series of data, you will see spikes both up and down. Sometimes we see charts that have smoothed the line down but that does not reflect the true events impact. Life has some real highs and some real lows that hit us during periods of our lives. Most of us only want to experience the highs and stay in the best of everything. The reality is our lives are not this smooth line that takes life in an easy fashion and gives us only an upward line but our experiences are so varied that some times we are high and other times we are low.Even though we believe that the Lord wants what is best for us, our hope is that we just want want the best and never experience rough times. Yet it is in the rough times that our faith should be strengthened and our resolve to focus more our spiritual relationship be our prime focus. Still the pain, frustration and the heartache that comes with challenges of life usually make us draw away from our relationship with the Creator.
I call these times, "Job moments". If you read in the Bible the first two chapters of Job you will see how events had taken Job from the best that life could offer to the very worse. All because of Satan wanting to prove a point.
As I write this blog with a patch over my eye, I believe that there are Job moments today where we are tested and Satan is allowed to place obstacles in front and on us. After we made a major commitment to the Lord, I found out that I have a cracked sternum. Next I pulled a muscle in the lower back. Next one of our customers had moved out a commitment for a large order to January. Then I experienced the detached and torn retina. I pray that enough is enough and told Satan to be gone from our lives.
Still it is important for us to have an increased faith in the faith giver. God was not surprised by all this and more rough happenings right now. We could have turned our back on the Creator but our trust in in Him to care for us.
My blog today is to realize that there are up and down seasons of our lives. We need to remain faithful to believe in the Lord. Just like fall is approaching and another summer season is gone, so will the Lord get you through your Job moments to a new season in your life. We just need to be ready and not turn away from the giver of life and detest the giver of pain and suffering.
My thought today!