Me:  What are you doing at school?

 

Prodigal:  Trying to learn and trying to grow.

 

Me:  We should never stop trying to grow because we may then become like salt which has lost its flavor.

 

Prodigal:  Good to remember that today.  Any other thoughts you would like to share.

 

Today I share from the book Abraham One Nomad’s Amazing Journey of Faith by Charles Swindoll

 

A divine test usually exposes what might be called our default response to crisis.  Everyone has a default response when confronted with a challenge to his or her faith.  It starts as a self-preservation reflex.  We then learn to cultivate this natural reflex into a strength.  In time, we learn to respond to stress with expert agility without even thinking.  And before we know it, we have a full-blown coping mechanism that takes over, keeping us from trusting in God.

 

The divine test that God has given me to expose how I was not trusting in God.  I had to take them several times.  God knows exactly what to bring into our lives at the right moment.  We want to complain.  We want to yell at God.  We feel entitled and we feel we are being treated unfairly.  What God is doing though is turning up the heat in the refiners fire.  He is trying to make you to not trust in yourself.  He wants you to trust in Him.  So go to the alter once again and surrender your plan and cling in trust to God’s plan.

Psalm 92:1

It is good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org