Who do we turn when our problems pile up? An important issue for us Christians. It´s real easy that we start working through our own problems in our own strenght instead of turning them over to the Lord. But God has promised us that He will bear our burdens, and more than that, He has told us that we´re to help each other to bear the burdens.
It's so easy to forget this bit when the problems pile up and turn into high mountains. It´s precisely then that we really need to throw ourselves completely and our worries on God and have confidence that He will give the right help at the right time.
I know a person where the mother went through a tough period, which led to the mother taking a shine to the liquor. Alcohol reinforced the trait of self-pity and becoming stubborn and assertive. At one point, this drunken grandmother would promptly take her grandchildren out to town. To get to town, the grandchildren would get in the car and she would drive. The daughter said no over and over again, and in the end there was no way out, but to rush to bed, bend her knees and cry out to the Lord. Almost at once, her husband came in and started talking to her and she told him to be quiet. But he kept talking and when she really listened, he told her that her mother had fallen asleep in the middle of the continued bickering out by the car and he needed help to carry her mother in. God intervened at once, right when she knelt and wept before Him.
Many of us have surely been experiensing things where we´ve turned to the Lord, and once we´ve done it the Lord intervenes. But strangely enough, we can forget these things where the Lord intervened later when other problems arise. In that respect we humans are weird.
God in His word has told us to cast our burdens on Him 1 Pet 5: 7 and not just once. What an incredible God we have.
Ps 55:23 Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
Jes 41:13 For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’
The storms are raging from time to time, for all of us, the problems turn into high mountains and look almost impregnable. And most of us are not mountaineers.
How do we get the right perspective when everything feels tough? It is one thing to know that the Lord bears our burdens and that our brothers and sisters in the faith will help carry them, another to truly trust the Lord and the siblings to bear them.
Somehow we need to get wings and fly, because if we look at high mountains from an airplane, they don´t look that big. In short, we need to look at the problems from God's perspective, instead of from our own.
A song came to me, which rather often happens to me, it was used extensively as an evangelistic song in the 70's.
Jesus is the answer
Ref. Jesus is the answer for the world today, Above Him there's no other, Jesus is the way, Jesus is the answer for the world today, Above Him there's no other, Jesus is the way
1. If you have some questions In the corners of your mind And traces of discouragement And peace you can not find Reflection of the old past They seem to face you every day There's one thing I know for sure That Jesus is the way
2. I know that you´ve got mountains That you think you can not climb I know that your skies been dark You think the sun won't shine In case you don't know it the World of God is true, And everything He's promised I tell you He would do for you
Jesus isn´t only the answer to our world, He is also the answer to us Christians and to our problems. What stood out to me in the song and what actually came up was the 2nd verse. Worries tend to obscure the sun and everything turns into the darkest night. It´s extra important in these moments, that we actually have our eyes fixed on Jesus himself.
Fasten your eyes upon Jesus.
Fixate your eyes upon Jesus, look into reality itself, every things around, you will melt away like snow, in the light of His power and glory.
I wish you God's rich peace Ingemo
I wish you God's rich peace Ingemo

