It Starts Small

The dark moments of our lives last only so long as it is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Are you on a dark road of adversity? Do you want God’s best for your life? Do you desire to be used by Him? At some point you’ll have to travel the road of adversity, or maybe you are on the road of adversity and questioning God “why.”

We get this idea that anything negative that happens in our lives is defeat. We need a transformation in this view. Adversity is something to be praised and celebrated. God has designed adversity, no matter the source, to become a turning point in our lives. Adversity is where we can choose to trust Him and our greatest leaps forward in spiritual maturity happen.

Adversity is a good knowing we are ready to discover something about Him. He knows we are ready to see something about us. God would love to give us all His truth at once, but the weight of it would crush us. My oldest daughter explained it best. When you are playing a video game you have a skill tree. You have to start with the first skill and it opens up two more. You can not get to the skills beyond until you complete the training for the next two. God works like this. He reveals us to ourselves, and Him to us through adversity.

How?

When you learn to take your eyes off the person or circumstance of adversity, and look to heaven, you start to see from God’s view. You look at it through the lens of heaven. Take that truck accident, for example. My first inclination was to think I had failed God’s plan. I had just messed up and the door would be closed. Instead of immediately looking to heaven I looked at the circumstance.

God revealed to me that day, my pride. Pride? Yes. Pride! I still think I can meet up the plan of God for my life. I still think I have the power to screw things up so bad, God would be disappointed in me and turn his back on me. Refuse me. Abandon me. it revealed a crack in my faith. I was doubting God Almighty.

Every single! Let me repeat this, EVERY SINGLE adversity that comes is not about the circumstance or people involved. It is about you. It is God showing you, you. He wants us to immediately run to Him and seek Him in all things. It could be revealing a crack in faith. An unbelief. A behavior pattern of response that is not godly. A lie from evil about Him or ourselves we are hanging on to. He reveals our true faith in all these things.

Right now, right where you are, remember, this: God has put s limit on adversity. He has done this because we are His children. He knows how much we can bear. He is never going to give you more than;you can handle. Trust me, there’s been some pretty dark moments in life. I did not think I could get through them. Most often I failed, so this cycle of adversity started until I stood up one day and said enough. I need you Father. If the same things keep repeating in your life, perhaps it is time to stop doing the same things over and over and realize it is a call for you to take that bold stand and say enough is enough. Not my way, Lord, but yours.

“But look, the Lord keeps his eye on those who fear him — those who depend on his faithful love to rescue them from death and to keep them alive in famine.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭33‬:‭18‬-‭19‬ ‭CSB‬‬

God delivers us from certain death and famine.

“As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him. For he knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭103‬:‭13‬-‭14‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Through adversity God is molding the clay. She;you know Christ as your Savior, God sees us as a saint. Sometimes the struggles and falling is His way to reconcile us back to Him to be redeemed and justified. God sees us full of His unconditional love. He sees the indwelling of the Holy Spirit within us and that we are sealed with His promise. He sees our potential the accomplish His works, His will, His purpose for the Kingdom of God.

If you know Christ intimately, adversity will not take up permanent residence in your life. Take comfort that when it is present, it develops good things to those willing to trust God. No matter what the dark moments are, be confident He will bring you into the light. When adversity comes, praise the Heavenly Father who is giving you truth and revealing you to you. When adversity comes, do not look at it, just look above.

Remember David:

“David and his men arrived in Ziklag on the third day. The Amalekites had raided the Negev and attacked and burned Ziklag. They also had kidnapped the women and everyone in it from youngest to oldest. They had killed no one but had carried them off as they went on their way. When David and his men arrived at the town, they found it burned. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been kidnapped. David and the troops with him wept loudly until they had no strength left to weep. David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite, had also been kidnapped. David was in an extremely difficult position because the troops talked about stoning him, for they were all very bitter over the loss of their sons and daughters. But David found strength in the Lord his God.”
‭‭1 Samuel‬ ‭30‬:‭1‬-‭6‬ ‭CSB‬‬