What Is God Trying To Teach Me?

When tough times strike, do you find yourself saying “why me?” Sometimes I think issues happen over and over and you think “it’s happening again.”

It’s normal to want to be free of our problems. We seek immediate answers in the hopes of returning to normal. You might ask yourself why is it happening to me again? But what if we asked what is God trying to teach me.

But is that what we’re really asking maybe what we’re really asking is, “what is God trying to teach me, then we can learn from it, and this problem will go away.”

Our first priority is to escape, and we so secretly think: i’m supposed to learn something to make that happen, them let me know what it is. Just get me out of this.

There’s some flawed assumptions when we think this way, however. The first is that everything has to happen to us is all about us. In reality, everything is about God, not us, and there’s no hope in the world that we can live perfectly. Not that God expects us to. What does He expect is that we grow closer to Him in times of joy and suffering.

There is no education like adversity, not all of our problems exist solely to instruct us. It’s a flawed assumption that our problems can be shortened by discerning what God is trying to teach us.

The second flawed assumption is that bad things always come with instructions from God. If we had lived perfectly, nothing bad would ever happen, because God wouldn’t need to teach us anything.

There are other very real possibilities. Maybe instead of teaching us something. God is giving us an opportunity to live out our faith in front of others. Maybe the adversity reface is an opportunity to deepen our trust in Him when the outcome is unknown. Or maybe it’s simply that we can be an example to others that joy doesn’t need to be based on circumstances, but on Jesus.

So when the next challenge comes your way, and you find yourself, asking what God might be teaching you, remember that not every trial is wrapped in a lesson for you, and you can’t learn your way out of adversity. The only thing that you can do is draw closer to God as you trust Him for your future,

Maybe that’s all God is ever trying to teach us.