Daily Devotional – 2/21/14 “God trust you with it!”

I know you’re probably wondering why your body had to be afflicted with cancer, heart disease, kidney problems, lupus, diabetes, arthritis, unbearable pain, being lied on, talked about, turned on, abused, misused and cast away but I’m here to tell you that God did it because He trust you with it. Yea, you’re trying to figure out why your marriage is suffering, can’t get a job, turned down yet again at the 3rd car lot, people spreading lies about you on social media and they are talking about you yet they don’t know you well that’s because God trust you with this trouble. See, just like Job, God knew you wouldn’t leave Him when trouble showed up, so He allowed it to come into your home. God knew you wouldn’t curse Him and turn your back so He allows the sickness to creep into your body. God even knows you’ll praise Him in the midst of your hell so He allows all hell to break loose around you. Yea, God knew you’d hold on through the storm; why do you think He allowed the rain to pour? God knew you’d love Him even after momma died, you lost your job and friends walked away because He trust you enough to allow you to go through it.

How do I know? Well because Jeremiah 29:11 tells me, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” God doesn’t allow anything to happen to us that has not already been intended for our lives yet He allows it because He trust us enough to get through it. Baby, God wouldn’t allow anything, absolutely anything harmful to succeed against you, me, us and I know this because Isaiah 54:17 says, “No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.” So go through the hell and come out greater than you were. Go in the fire but come out shining like pure gold. Get knocked around by the storm and then come out refreshed and renewed. Stumble a little if you have too, lean if you must, let go of the rope if you can’t hold on, fall down if you need too, cry if it helps, scream and get it out but don’t give up and don’t throw in the towel yet do it with a fresh renewal of your faith in God because He trust YOU enough to allow you to go through. Oh and after it’s over, after you’ve gone through and withstood, after you’ve been knocked down and gotten up, after you’ve been talked about and still walked, after you’ve been abused and is now stronger; God will give you everything back that you lost simply because He is taking you from great to greater and you held on through it! God trust you enough so now trust Him!