Are you tired? Perhaps weary and burdened. Maybe you’ve been seeking God’s will for many months, perhaps even years – and you’re yet to hear anything. Perhaps you’re facing a challenge that seems too heavy to bear.
In our lives, we face many mountains that seem too high to climb. We pray earnestly that God will remove them; make the road ahead flat and comfortable Lord! But all we hear is silence. Sometimes God speaks in a gentle whisper. He did so to Elijah. Perhaps He’ll give me a personal word.
And yet, most often, there is silence.
It’s not because God doesn’t want to give us direction. We have the Bible and spiritual leaders and mentors specifically for this purpose. But if God doesn’t always answer, why does He ask us to pray and “seek His face”?
There are many answers, none are easy. But perhaps one is that we are praying for and yearning for the wrong thing. God wants to shift and transform our hearts into the likeness of His Son.
When we’re struggling and searching for God’s deliverance, Douglas Moo suggests the following:
“The prayer believers are to offer in such circumstances is not necessarily for deliverance from the trial, but for the strength to endure it faithfully.”
In the words of my father-in-law, pray for a stronger back to bear the load! God uses these trials to grow us and shape us. And as such, shouldn’t that encourage us to be grateful for the hardships we face? Should we be glad to experience pain in the name of Jesus Christ? It is all for His glory.
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