Giants

Well, school has started and summer is now officially over, much to my dismay.  For the past few weeks I have taken off to edit my upcoming book and to play with grandkids, and I wondered after taking this much time off, would I be able to jump right back into writing.  There have been God given stories at every turn of a day for sure,  and I had hoped to remember some of them but as I sit here at square one, I have to ask God to once again give me the words and lessons that He has orchestrated and get this writing ball rolling again. 

I will begin with this one.  I have a dear friend who I have a coke date with about once a month, and finally last week we broke through the summer chain of events and found time to catch up. Each time we are together something that she says sticks on my heart and gets me thinking, this was one of the thoughts that lingered. She was talking about incidences that had happened in her life, and said that sometimes when it is too hard to go through something, you just have to go around it. I just smiled and listened and realized that those very words represent the decisions that each of us has to contemplate and face everyday.

We are all faced with giants, giant problems, giant decisions, giant hurdles, giant potholes, etc.  And sometimes they are just so big and bulky and massive, that there is no way to go through them, our only choice to get by them is to go around them.  I don't know where you are in your life right now, or what giants you are facing, but if your vision is blocked by fear, and you are intimidated by the very complexity and overwhelming stature of a face forward giant, take God's hand and ask him to help you go around whatever it is that has stymied your forward advancement. Nothing is too big for God, or too complex, or too overwhelming.  But time after time we seem to be faced with the hard stuff, the big stuff, the over our head stuff, and we do need help.  God's help.  

I have watched in my own family as well as in other families how God has shown His glory through His faithfulness with feats that were way over my head and a viable solution was incomprehensible.  God does that you know; he shows us that when we run out of our own earthly options, that is when he takes such great joy in dispensing His wisdom, His solutions, and His grace upon a situation and untangles it in such a way that we could never, in our finite minds, have come to a conclusion such as the one he orchestrated. 

In church yesterday, our Sunday school teacher said that we are too busy looking down at our earthly woes, when we should be looking up for heavenly input. It sort of parallels with the giant that stands before us.  If we concentrate on the giant, then we are forfeiting the opportunity to allow God to help us find a path of praise and faithfulness to go around whatever has blocked our view of 

Him, and our belief that He can and will and is able to do more than any of us can possibly imagine.  We just must trust in His power, and abide in truth that His sovereignty not only overrides any earthly giant, no matter how threatening it may be to us earthly folks.

When we learn to allow God to help us go around a situation, when we have realized that we cannot go through it alone, the journey becomes a little more bearable. With God as our guide, the journey is not quite so intense, does not induce frustration, and activates our sense of hope, faith and dependance on Him instead of trying to overcome something that we do not have the tools, means and power to do on our own. 

Matthew 17:20
He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you havefaith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

If you are facing a giant, look up!  Ask for heavenly help, and stand on the truth that our God is a sovereign God, who has all the answers to questions that we have not yet even asked.  He knows how to get us through tough situations but sometimes he pulls us aside and helps us to just go around them. 

Dear Lord, thank you that you are always watching us and that you will generate the means to help us face our earthly giants, if only we will come to you and ask.  Amen    

                        

Praise God wherever you are and whatever situation He has allowed you to be in . . . His glory will shine through!