If you are a Christian and you are going through a difficult time or trial, I urge you to remember what brought you to Christ in the first place. Remember His grace when He brought you into the family.
Colossians 2:6 says, "as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him." Could this difficult time that you are going through be a wake-up call to return to the Lord? Though you walk by faith and you love the Lord and Christ lives in you, there may be some sin that is dragging you down. If you've come to the place where you recognize that you're slipping away from the Lord, you need to have another crisis. You need to have your chords of commitment tightened. You need to again get your heart attached to His.
Don't just cope with this difficult time as if it will eventually go away. Return to the Lord. Don't try to sneak back and pretend you never left. Instead, run hard back to Him in repentance and joy. He knows where you have been. He knows where you are. And He wants your heart back with His.
God puts a lot of challenges in front of us. And we attribute those challenges to our circumstance. Sometimes we blame other people, an area of conflict, a hardship that's been dropped on our home or our marriage. In reality, those challenges are God coming to you as He is trying to advance your relationship with Him. If it was left up to us we would hide or dodge those difficult times and we would end up going nowhere good in our faith except in a downward spiral.
I encourage you to see those difficult circumstances in your life as God coming to you to get you to advance His purpose for your life. "What is it that you want to show me, Lord?
Doubt can become faith. Discouragement can become joy. Despair can become purpose and fulfillment. Defeat can become victory. How can that happen in your life? Get your heart back in line with His.
