Oh how I sometimes wish God would ZAP me! How about you?? If I need patience….ZAP ME…..wake up in a bad mood….ZAP ME (I suddenly am happy)……need peace…ZAP ME……
I don’t know about you but it doesn’t seem to be working that way!!! I will plead for patience and then get hit with the most insane situation where another second in it would make me EXPLODE!!! I have even tried the whole..”I am going to MAKE THIS a good day” attitude to no sooner get out of my bathroom in the morning to find myself so irritated that I could pinch someone’s head off!
Then it hit me….He isn’t going to ZAP me because I wouldn’t learn!
I used to play basketball ( I will have to interject here that I was not ZAPPED with basketball talent either, ok back to the story)…….I would have to practice for hours! Take shooting for example…I practiced to the point that I could almost feel when the ball left my hand if the shot was going to go in or not (that in itself was a MIRACLE!)… I remember lying in my bed at night shooting the ball into the air, focused and trying to even visualize the ball going in every time it left my hand….
PRACTICE! He isn’t ZAPPING us but He is giving us the opportunities to PRACTICE the very things we are asking Him for…..
So, how do we do that? When those times start creeping in that causes us to lose our joy of the day or causes worry and anxiety to cloud our thinking…STOP and see if by chance these are times of PRACTICE! When we open our eyes in the morning and have already started off in a bad mood, PRACTICE!!!!
So maybe your saying…..yeah right!?!?! You have no idea what my day is like…. You would be right in that BUT He does and HE knows your heart and what your desires are. He know EVERYTHING about you. He isn’t causing the situations to occur but He is using then to teach you and I….
Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
The “good” would be His molding of us for the purpose HE created for us to do. It’s in those moments of irritation, aggravation, those times that we can choose to not stress or worry (over things we can’t control anyway) or choose to wring our hands let it consume our day… it’s in those times of allowing our words to tear someone down or choosing to talk about the good….these are the times we are PRACTICING until…..guess what happens???
We see progress and notice that things are changing……… Sometimes I still long to be ZAPPED however I know that my hard head would never LEARN anything that way……
How about you???
I can definitely relate. It always seems to me like those folks who are not "naturally gifted" and work like crazy to achieve the desired result, somehow wind up surpassing everyone else in the long run! Now how does that happen! :) Love this..very real..very inspiring.
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