If I left you to your own limitations you would be comfortable where you are and you wouldn't grow; you wouldn't learn.
This is what I told my son the other day as he was frustrated with his school work. It was too hard for him to do in his own mind. As these words came out of my mouth to him, they boomeranged back at me!
Wow! I've had a similar mentality too, and I didn't even realize it! 1st our trip seemed impossible, yet God brought us through. Plus we had a great time!
Yet we came back home to prepare for an audit. Not much fun and I allowed it to overwhelm me once again! Prayers welcomed! Haha!
Truth is, if we didn't face difficult challenges, how could our faith grow? It can't! We get comfortable with what we know and we grow content. In contentment complacency sets in and over time we become stagnant. This is spiritually dangerous!!!
Needless to say, the Lord stirs us! He knows our capacity to be stirred and in His infinite love and mercy, He pushes us to flex our faith muscles! It isn't some form of punishment, rather, He sees our need for growth. He sees our need to rely more on Him than a false confidence we can place in ourselves or in other people.
With all that said, please keep us in prayer... as my son is learning new challenging things and facing new adventures, so am I! God has a purpose and a plan in everything! I pray He is glorified in and through it all!
May we draw near to the Lord as we face the unknown, and cry out as David did.
"My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word." Psalm 119:28
Then hold on tight to Him and His promises! He said, "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." Isaiah 41:10
