Hi how are you today? I am well. This post is very late. I was on holidays the week before and came back only to return to full speed. Work has been busy and so has life. This week has really tired me out. Have you ever experienced that?
It had me thinking though of our individual lives. I am not sure about you but sometimes I feel God is just putting another stitch into the tapestry of my life. When I feel that one stitch, it is like an ouch moment.
These moments can occur when we deal with work changes- this week I have had team changes and responsibility changes, sometimes it is health- when you or a loved one is battling a sickness or disease, sometimes it can be our children- they are facing challenging circumstances or sometimes it can be financial- God is asking us to trust Him more with our money.
All these little or big ouch moments can feel like such a burden or even a punishment, until we realise that God is with us and never wastes one of our experiences. All of those ouch moments in our lives help others in their ouch moments.
The other way we can feel these ouch moments is when you obey God in something and He appears to stop it. It is like He is then working on a different part of our picture and that area is lying there dormant. In these times, I especially and maybe you, need to remember that God has a great plan for our lives. He just hasn’t turned that tapestry over to show us the picture.
Let’s picture some people in the Bible that had ouch moments where God was building that picture for later.
David is the first one I think of. He was only young when his father sent him to the battlefield with provisions for his brothers. His job was keeping the sheep and playing the harp for the king. That doesn’t sound exciting but it was preparation for his future.
The battles he faced when looking after his sheep prepared him to trust God with the battle with Goliath and all the other battles he was involved in as king over a nation.
Playing the harp in a palace allowed him to see the workings of a palace.
The next person is Ruth. She married Naomi’s son and probably heard the stories of the God of Israel. When the time came for her to choose to follow her mother in law and risk persecution as a foreigner or go back to her own people to a life without God, she chose to follow her mother in law.
Because of this small insignificant step, it changed her life. She became the great grandmother of King David and is part of the lineage of Jesus.
Both David and Ruth had no idea at the time that God was weaving the tapestry of their lives into a life of significance for Him. But He was and He did.
The same is happening with each of us. Those small steps of obeying God when it is hard, of laying down things when God tells us it’s not time or the challenges we face in life could be setting us up for a significant future in God.
This is something I am sure none of us wants to miss out on.
So when those ouch moments occur, let’s run to God and let Him minister to us in those times.
One day when He turns that tapestry over, we will all be amazed at the picture.
I pray this has ministered to you as much as it has to me. Have a great rest of the week.
Bless you and keep living the life God intended.
Karen
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