Trusting God’s Heart

God promises us  that we can trust his heart even when we can’t see His hand.

“For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thought’s of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. You shall call on Me, and you shall go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart” – Jeremiah 29:11-13

Life is full of difficult circumstances, and in the midst of disappointment and pain it can be hard to trust that God is good and loving. But God promises us that we can trust His heart, even when we can’t see His hand.

While having the opportunity to speak to many war veterans due to volunteer work. I found that many who went into war believing in God, after seeing atrocities that went on they lost their faith in Him.

Their questioning is only natural since believed that an all knowing, all loving, all powerful God was in control. in the end it because of these things that God knows about our problems. He loves us enough to help us with them, and He is powerful enough to do so.

We live in a fallen, broken world.

If you’re like me, God has not answered all your prayers in the way you wanted. yet in the midst of our suffering God promised that he had made plans for us that were not evil and to give us a future and the hope.

Today many of our problems result in our misused freedom, not God‘s intention. The Lord uses suffering to grow a spiritually.

1 Corinthians 13:12 says,

“For new we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I know fully, even as I was also fully known.”

This means we will understand more in the future that we can in the present.

God walks with us through our hardest days. Even on our most painful days when we are tempted to turn from Him, when we need his help He is still with us.

When Jesus was on earth, He didn’t spend time with the ones who were fine, He spent His time with those who were not.

I think that’s why it’s important for us to pray about our circumstances and then trust God. No matter our circumstances and challenges He wants an abundant, joy filled, life for us.

Here are a few ideas for praying for or hardships and challenges:

Identify a way you are a disappointed with God. Be specific and honest.

“Why, Lord do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?” ( Psalm 10:1)

Ask him for the faith to trust him with your problems. When we last faith, we can pray for the faith to have faith.

“I believe, help my unbelief.” (Mark 9:24)

Trust your challenges and your day for God’s providential plan and love.

Psalm 37:4-6 tells us,

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him, and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.”

There is a popular concept by Henri Nouwen called the “wounded healer.” The person who helps others with the same struggles they have experienced will begin to heal.

As we trust God with our own difficult times in life, which can look for ways to serve others facing similar challenges. “God comforts us all in our affliction, so we may be able to comfort those who are in similar afflictions, with the comfort which we ourselves are comforted by God” (2 Corinthians 1: 3-4).