God lives and works today, but perhaps you
can't see him at work in your life
because you can't see beyond the mountain of
your problems and difficulties.
God wants to help.
However, often we have to experience that he
lets the difficulties pile up without sending help.
Why does he do this?
Listen to today's meditation by Basilia Schlink called,
When Problems and Troubles Arise.
God's promises come true, whatever he says he'll
do.
My heart no doubt can hold about what
he has told.
I have often experienced that God let difficulties
pile up in order to wake us up
to see what displeased him.
Whenever we came into such situations, our first
prayer was, Lord, enlighten us through your Holy
Spirit of Truth.
Show us what is grieving you.
Show us why you are placing so many
problems and troubles in our way and why
you have to chastise us.
And such prayers for the Spirit of Truth
have the greatest promise of being answered.
He always showed us our sore spot very
clearly.
Then, claiming the redeeming power of the sacrifice
of Jesus, we fought an intensive battle of
prayer against it.
God wanted to reach a certain goal.
He wanted to bring us to repent of
the things which he had shown us to
be our failures and sins.
He wanted us to turn over a new
leaf.
If he succeeded with us, the difficulties disappeared
by themselves after a while.
God took them away because he had attained
his purpose.
The Lord also leads us into such difficulties
to teach us not to look at the
visible things, even if they are great difficulties,
and not to reckon with our human possibilities.
He wants us to reckon with him alone,
with the Almighty Powerful Lord, the Caring Father.
He wants to give us a special blessing
through such prayers of faith in the midst
of difficulties.
He wants to give us an experience with
the Living God which we seldom experience in
other situations.
Such prayers of faith in the midst of
impossibilities give us the greatest possibility to glorify
him and give him the honor before the
visible and the invisible world.
That is why I can only be thankful
for the many difficulties which God has placed
in my way and in the way of
the sisterhood.
They showed us our sore spots.
They led us into repentance.
Through prayer and faith in the blood of
Jesus, they let us experience redemption and transformation.
The difficulties also brought us into a deeper
faith in his power and help, which we
experienced then due to our prayer.
They filled our hearts anew with the adoration
of our Lord.
They let us testify to who our God
and Father is, so that others could be
set afire to give God the glory.
For God loves all his children.
God bless you.