Have you ever found yourself in a place in your life where you feel like you are waiting for God to enter into your difficult circumstances and bring healing and help, but it seems like Jesus is delaying? Or have you ever found yourself asking the question “How could a good and loving God allow bad things to happen in the lives of those He loves?” How can Jesus seem to be so absent in the lives of His followers when they encounter difficult circumstances? Isn’t that the tension that we can find ourselves wrestling with?
The story of Lazarus is in the Bible because it reveals a timeless truth when it comes to charting a course to spiritual maturity. And that timeless truth is that charting a course to spiritual maturity requires trusting God to leverage difficult circumstances to make us more like Him. Sometimes God miraculously brings help, healing, and deliverance from our difficult circumstances to bring Him glory. Other times God enables us to walk through the midst of our difficult circumstances to bring Him glory. In every case, God will leverage the difficult circumstances in our lives to cultivate and develop a growing and maturing relationship with Him as we learn to lean into and trust Him.
But each of us here has a choice on how we respond to this timeless truth. We can choose to resist and push back against this truth and live a life that is filled with frustration and doubt; or we can choose to embrace this truth. And God want us to embrace this truth because when we embrace this truth, we can also embrace and engage the reality that God has placed us in the perfect position to reflect His character and reveal His glory to those around us as we walk through difficult circumstances.
So how will you respond to the difficult circumstances that God places in your life? Will you question God? Will you doubt God? Or will you lean into and trust God to leverage the difficult circumstances in your life to make you more like Him and to bring Him glory?
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