Yea, I know that you are tired of being told that everything will be alright because you are trying to figure out why you are always going through but have you ever stopped to think that maybe you aren’t getting what God is trying to give to you? I mean, obviously, you’re going through but have you stopped long enough to see why? Really, have you? Don’t you know that in order to get a testimony you have to first go through the test? In order to get your healing you have to go through hurt and sickness. In order to get your break through you have to be broken. In order to get up, you’d have to be first down and in order to get out; you had to first be in. Baby, don’t you know that if you had everything you wanted you surely wouldn’t work for what you needed. So, go on through your battle because then you’ll appreciate your blessing.
Still don’t get it? Let me break this thang down for you. God took you through cancer in order for you to appreciate the skin that you’re in. Yea, you went through chemo and you lost your hair, a few pounds and maybe even your breast but after it was all over with you probably got a better grade of NEW hair, a NEW body and some NEW breast, so you got your blessing. Yea, you used to be a drug addict and you’d sell anything to feed your addiction but you’re clean and sober now and in the mist of your deliverance you got a NEW appreciation for your body, a NEW life and maybe even a NEW spouse; so you got your blessing. Yea, you got fired/laid off from the job you gave 15 years too but when all the dust settled you realized that you have the right knowledge and connections and even the right finances to start your own NEW business or to get the NEW career path God had already laid out for you; so you got your blessing. Ok, so your boy/girlfriend left you and you thought your heart would never mend but then one day you met your NEW wife or your NEW husband who treats you like royalty and who made you forget all about the past; so you got your blessing. Yea, your car got repossessed but now you truly appreciate the NEW one you got even if it was used. Yea, you’ve been through this and maybe even that but aren’t you still living to see this NEW day? Then, stop complaining about your battle but go through it in order to get your blessing.
Will it always be hard, no but it won’t always be easy either; this is why God says in Isaiah 41:10, “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” 1 Peter 1:7 says, “These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold–though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.” So, you aren’t being tested because you’re worse than anyone else but you’re being tested because of who you are and whose you are. Stop acting like you’re the only one going through, you’re the only one who has lost somebody or something, that you’re the only one sick or even the only one sick and tired because you’re not. God places us in the fire but we won’t get burned. And if the truth shall be told, we come out better than we were before we went in, so go on through it. Go on through your battle and then get the blessing that God has for you!
Lakisha, the Author 