Days of Doubt

 

Some days I have doubts. 

I doubt God can see my dreams and desires to fruition. 

I am not sure I should doubt. I don’t want to be double minded like James tells us not to be. 

I see there is so much goodness and beauty yet life can be hard, sad, and hurt sometimes. The world wants us to question God. 

Then I doubt but really it’s me I doubt the ability of not God. I know He can do immeasurable things. I have seen others have their dreams fulfilled and God has answered my prayers so many times. Yet there are days I hesitate to believe it for myself. I let doubt hold me back.  Though it isn’t me in whom I should trust for anything. 

It is God. To fear God. 

sigh.

What is wrong with me? Should we ever doubt? I am not sure. There are days I believe God then the world screams in my ear, “it’s not for you. It will be too hard. It will cost too much.” 

What is the cost? My soul, my time, my money? 

I let fear paralyze me. I do nothing. I let my big emotions take me captive. 

It is in these times I go to The Word for answers. 

 Believing God is surrendering my doubts, the fear and the what if’s over into his arms. Freeing me of myself. All my resources are His. One big resource is prayer! 

My doubt brings me to prayer. Where I want to talk to God through my doubts, bringing me and my daily life to faithful surrender. He is faithful and never changes. So if He can do immeasurably more than I think I want to exchange my doubts with belief in Him for everything! 

Will I be faithful? 

Will I keep being obedient to keep doing what He calls me to do even in the beautiful days and in the hard days ahead? 

Will I believe my dreams are valid and He will work them out one day through my faithful obedience. 

I don’t want to doubt God can do anything even beyond what I can imagine for my life. 

What about you? 

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Every Wednsday, we will read and exegetically study Pauls letter to the church at Colossae.

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WEEK ONE

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*focus v. 1-14           

WEEK TWO

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*focus v. 15-20

WEEK THREE

Read Chapter 2

*focus v. 1-15

WEEK FOUR

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*focus v. 16-23

WEEK FIVE

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*focus v. 1-17

Week Six

Read Chapter 4

*focus v. 18-23

Week Seven

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Forging Relationships in Christ

 

“Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.”

‭‭Colossians‬ ‭2:6-7‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

I relate building relationships to forging hot steel metal into a sharp cutting knife. It is a hard, labor intensive but an absolutely beautiful job. We as believers are called to build relationships. We are to build upon Him. It is the very foundation we must walk on in life in order that we can stand with any endurance. 

Let’s be honest relationships can be hard and it’s easier to just not try because things just may get messy and you could get hurt. You might be right. I have had people walk into my life and then out. It hurts every time and it never gets easier especially inside the church body. 

The good news is that God never leaves us just because others decide to move on. He gives us wisdom to strengthen our faith and he will bring along side us someone else who will encourage us. God never says to stop doing kingdom work so as sisters in Christ let’s keep forging a beautiful relationships with one another being knit together in love! (Col 2:2) 

Blessings 

Tracy 

Love Like Jesus

 

“Don’t should on me.” 

I heard this said by a young mother once. She had her first child and she had all kinds of unknown people approach her with what she called “shoulds.” You probably know this as well. When people whom we don’t have relationships with try and tell us what we “should” be doing or how to do it. Life is hard and God doesn’t want a list follower but a relationship with a Christ follower. He said love is the greatest commandment. 

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:37-39

What if we loved people instead of putting 

our “shoulds” on them? 

You know that first reaction to someone who we think isn’t doing life the way we think they should be doing life and especially the fellow believer in our church. 

I am guilty of the side eye too but did Jesus do that to the woman at the well? Or the adulterous woman the people wanted to stone? No. He first of all knew who they were and loved them in-spite of their sin. He told the woman at the well to go and sin no more. He also states that the one who is without sin is the one who should cast the first stone at the adulterous woman. Jesus loves us first. It’s when we know this love from Jesus and see it from our fellow believers we can be drawn back to him. No amount of “shoulds” will ever draw someone to us or to Jesus Christ. 

Sometimes I need to step back from my own self righteousness and remember that God wants me to first get to know people and love them as he does. God loves us. It is then that his love will draw them back to a life of holiness. Our attitude as a professing Christian is the very thing that will either draw people towards Christ or push them away.  

God didn’t push people away but he drew them in. That is the “should” that I need placed on myself today. 

I should want to get to know people before I think anything else about them. 

I should love like Jesus everyday.