Monday, August 1, 2011
Has anyone seen hope?
Lately I have had what would seem like continually road blocks thrown in my path. I have attempted numerous times to obtain a new position in the company I currently work for. My husband and I have been trying for months to get pregnant to no avail. Don't even get me started on getting pre-approved for a mortgage. My world lately has been filled with NO's from every side. So, I had begun to hold all my frustration in but once I hit my max it slowly begin to leak out. I started acting out towards my co-workers, family, and even strangers! I wasn't having major blowouts or throwing things. Nothing like that. My "acting out" came in the form of sarcastic responses, rolling my eyes, and overall my attitude. I had a bad attitude about work, school, and just life in general. I was throwing a 3 year old temper tantrum in the form of a 26 year old. As any good Christian would do, I begin to talk to, no let me rephrase that, tell God what I had going on and how it needed to be fixed. I had the "I know it all" attitude and wanted to let God in on my plan that I have for my life. I mean, really, who knows better than me what is best for my life, right? Yeah, well turns out I don't. Currently, as one of my extra classes I've had to take to fulfill some credits, I have been taking a Worldview class. These worldviews expand more than just Judaism, Islam, Hindu, etc. These worldview are more deism, naturalism, nihilism, etc. I don't want to spend all day explaining each one but a quick overview is that each of these views don't see God as being present in our lives or even present at all! WHAT?!?!? I crawled out from underneath my rock that I live in and allowed God to use this class to open my eyes to what goes on around me. These worldviews are literally hopeless. I mean you read what they believe and you feel so sad for them because there is no HOPE. So, fast forward a few weeks and I'm having a complete meltdown in the front yard. I mean this is one that once the waterworks started there was no stopping them. My husband and I are discussing some mortgage pre-approval things (grrrr...still not quite over that one yet) and the hopelessness feeling creeps right up on me. All of the sudden I remembered a verse in Lamentations that I had seen recently on my sister's computer. It was Lamentations 3: 19-31 "I'll never forget the trouble, the utter lostness, the taste of ashes, the poison I've swallowed. I remember it all-oh how well I remember-the feeling of hitting the bottom. But there's one other thing I remember, and remembering, i keep a grip on hope: God's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left. God proves to be good to the man who passtionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God. It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times. When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worse. Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return." It says over and over in this verse that we have hope in God. We don't ask questions to God but wait in the quiet for the hope to appear. I've begun my waiting process because I know that my God will provide for me all my needs and that He is the one that brings the hope that I need.
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