When a storm rages in our lives and we are in the middle of it, often all we can see, and feel is the effects of what is surrounding us.
After the storm, in the quiet and lull of the aftermath, all our eye and heart can see is the devastation and ruin of what was. But God is the rebuilder of everything that is broken!
Sometimes He allows storms to totally break and pull to the ground what we consider the important things in our lives. He may do this to remove anything that we have set above Him, to test our faith, to see if we truly rely on Him.
We feel the circumstances are harsh, we often feel abandoned; but God only has our best interest in mind. He removes things from our lives that we in ourselves do not have the power or the desire to remove. Like a clay vessel He breaks us and remolds us into vessels of honor and good.
Then He takes the brokenness and emptiness and begins to create who we are destined to be, if we allow Him to.
He never harms us, but He does test our faith and integrity. He will mold and shape us to be stronger, to be holy, to be set apart for the goodness and the greatness of His blessing and plan for our lives.
He has plans and a purpose for everyone, but it is up to us to accept, receive and obey. When we do He can truly work in us the perfectness of His will.
When we submit and set aside our own agendas and desires and become obedient and open to His plan that we are at peace. When we walk in righteousness we can receive the blessing that He has promised to us.
His word is true and perfect, it will never fail. He exalts His Word above His own name. Consider all that His name entails! He is our Peace, He is our Healer, He is our Supplier, He is our refuge! What we need in any moment, HE IS! He is everything we can ever need or hope for! I can’t even begin to describe all that His name is. But this I do know, when you receive a promise from God, you can be confident that it will come to pass. It may not be in the timing you have in mind, but it will come in the perfect order and time, and it will never be late!
2 Peter 3:9 “The Lord does not delay and is not tardy or slow about what He promises, according to some people’s conception of slowness, but He is long-suffering (extraordinarily patient) toward you, not desiring that any should perish, but all should turn to repentance.”