Sometimes God

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Today's Quotation:

Sometimes God does not change your situation, because He is trying to change your heart.

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Today's Meditation:

There were times in my life in which I came to God asking and praying for a specific outcome to a situation and my desired result never did happen. This, of course, left me feeling let down and questioning why God did not answer me. But as time went on, I began to realize that perhaps God did answer me and I was simply not listening. You see, by not getting what I had hoped for, I had been given the chance to gain something else that was essential for my personal growth--perseverance, integrity, faith, hope, humility, and so much more. It seems that nearly every time I have felt that I know what I need, I discover that not only can I manage without receiving it exactly as I have asked for it, but that I have been given an opportunity to discover something necessary for my journey through life.

Listening to God in our lives requires us to spend time in solitude and prayer listening to our hearts. More importantly, it requires us to have trust and faith in our loving Creator and His plans for us. But because we are human, this can be incredibly difficult--we have flaws such as the inclination to be quite stubborn, to listen to our worries and fears, or to desire to be in control of our lives. But when we are stubborn, we do a poor job of listening to what others are telling us. And when we start to entertain our worries and fears, or attempt to control our lives, we miss out on so much of what God is saying to us through those trials and difficulties? What if He is asking us to grow? What if He is challenging us to become something greater?

There will be things we must face that are difficult and challenge us--the loss of a loved one, financial struggles, loss of a job, relationship issues. But these are also opportunities for us to grow, to become better husbands and wives, to become more compassionate human beings because we understand the pain of loss, to become better than the person we were yesterday.

Today's Challenge: Face your challenges today with an open and willing heart.

Questions to consider:

Can you think of a recent situation in which you did not get what you asked for? What was the outcome?

What kind of personal growth did you experience?

How has your heart changed over the course of your life?

For further thought:

We believe we can change things according to our wishes because that's the only happy solution we can see. We don't think of what usually happens and what is also a happy solution: things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Marcel Proust

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