Getting to a place of trust
A while ago I was sitting in a coffee shop with a good friend who was going through a hard time. We were discussing how sometimes people reach a point of desperation and cry out to God to be delivered from the problem, only to be met with a wall of silence.
Why doesn’t God always answer us straight away? Why won’t the Lord just wave a hand over us and take away the pain, frustration and seemingly insurmountable problem that drives us to this point of desperation? Why is the struggle necessary?
How are we supposed to win the world for Jesus when half the time we struggle ourselves just to keep our families together? It can feel like we are treading water in the deepest ocean, miles from land, and know that sooner or later we will run out of energy and drown.
I don’t have all of the answers, and I don’t know anyone who does have them all. Every person on this earth struggles from time to time, and some of the big questions continue to go unanswered.
These are the facts.
But here’s the truth!
The truth is that the Lord never leaves us. The truth is that He cares about us. The truth is that He has a purpose for our lives. The truth is that the Lord wants to heal our hurts and wounds. The truth is that sometimes the point of our deepest need, our most desperate moment, is the place where we need to be.
The truth is that when we come to the end of our own strength, perhaps only then is the desperation so deep and confronting that we are finally ready to give up trying to live out of our own strengths and abilities. Maybe it is this place where we really surrender ourselves and say “Lord I don’t have what it takes to get through this” and finally really put our trust in Him.
