Keep your chin up. Look at the good around you. You must keep going. God is good, God is good, God is good, God is Good.
These are the things you tell yourself to move forward when your heart breaks.
But sometimes, in the middle of it all, when He’s said yes and the rest of the world says no, things just feel bleak. Like He’s led you on. Like you missed the leading entirely. Like this was all your idea and you were stupid to strike out on it in the first place. Either that, or this is just the result of your not doing it His way. Whatever that is.
The doubts rush in and you look at Him and go, “wasn’t I enough?” “Wasn’t I doing this right?” “I thought I was acknowledging You – where is that direction You promised?” And there is always the little demon on your shoulder elbowing you to chew Him out about all that promised success.
But faith. Faith isn’t about the “yes now.” Living by faith isn’t about visible proof that what you’re doing for God is working. It’s about a tomorrow-yes, a living Hope who has a Name, who said that you could be who He made you to be in Him without fear that a manipulative God is jerking your chain.
Only He knows what that looks like in today. Faith is His business, the growing of it, the deepening of it, the counting of it as our righteousness.
In the moments when everything is falling apart and the rejections are piling up, you say it, “God is good,” and you say this too, “It looks pretty bad right now, God, and I want to walk out on You and on all of this” and you let Him deal with the truth of the whole big mess.
Amen.
My heart sang out with this line; “Only He knows what that looks like in today. Faith is His business, the growing of it, the deepening of it, the counting of it as our righteousness.”
Thank you for this … if I might ask your permission to use this quote in my post tomorrow with credits given of course!
Thank you for your transparency of heart!
Blessings
Andrea
I just ran up against an old wound again, one that happens over and over. Last time I swore that if it happened again, I’d have to leave God because it would mean He was cruel. But it did happen again, and when it came time to leave Him, I realized that living without Him would be worse heartbreak. It’s an odd thing, isn’t it? How real He is?
ugh. yes. Sometimes that is exactly how we feel. I needed to know others felt like this sometimes too, today, so thank you. And now…. God is good, God is good, God is good….