Where I Am Right Now
04/15/07 09:22 PM Filed in: Personal
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I came to a place a couple days ago where I told someone, "I have reached the point of switching from pursuing excellence, to merely pursuing survival." It's one of those things that you must be a college student with five weeks till the end of school to understand. I reached quite a low ebb in which I had no where to turn but to my Father. But He was faithful. I am reading a book in my Doctrine and Practice of Prayer class simply entitled Prayer by Philip Yancey. And in it he talks about how God desires complete and total honesty in prayer. I have been in the habit of doing this for a while now, but it was reassuring to see that I was on the right track. If God already knows our thoughts and how we're feeling anyway, then why not express them to Him? God was faithful to send someone to encourage me to keep on, and to keep the end result in view. He has truly proven Himself to be a God of faithfulness, and even though I don't fully understand why this event happened in my scholastic life, I know that God is in control and I can trust Him to guide me through. So if I can simply encourage you, if you happen to have anything in your life that you don't fully understand, don't hide your emotions from God. Yancey says something to the fact of 'perhaps it's not the fact that we have these feelings that troubles God, maybe it's the fact that we're trying to hide them.' Look at the biblical examples of Job and David. Have you read some of David's psalms lately? They are the epitome of honesty before God! So don't bring a 'false' you before the omniscient God, come before Him as you truly are, and that is where you will find Him.
Ryan
I came to a place a couple days ago where I told someone, "I have reached the point of switching from pursuing excellence, to merely pursuing survival." It's one of those things that you must be a college student with five weeks till the end of school to understand. I reached quite a low ebb in which I had no where to turn but to my Father. But He was faithful. I am reading a book in my Doctrine and Practice of Prayer class simply entitled Prayer by Philip Yancey. And in it he talks about how God desires complete and total honesty in prayer. I have been in the habit of doing this for a while now, but it was reassuring to see that I was on the right track. If God already knows our thoughts and how we're feeling anyway, then why not express them to Him? God was faithful to send someone to encourage me to keep on, and to keep the end result in view. He has truly proven Himself to be a God of faithfulness, and even though I don't fully understand why this event happened in my scholastic life, I know that God is in control and I can trust Him to guide me through. So if I can simply encourage you, if you happen to have anything in your life that you don't fully understand, don't hide your emotions from God. Yancey says something to the fact of 'perhaps it's not the fact that we have these feelings that troubles God, maybe it's the fact that we're trying to hide them.' Look at the biblical examples of Job and David. Have you read some of David's psalms lately? They are the epitome of honesty before God! So don't bring a 'false' you before the omniscient God, come before Him as you truly are, and that is where you will find Him.
Ryan
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