No one has everything going their way all
- Kyle Snyder: Live on Purpose
- January 14, 2019
- 1103
Nothing good ever happens to me. I am just wasting my time. I’m not going to pray because it never works for me. I am just a loser. It’s just a waste of time. God doesn’t love me. If God really loved me, then he would do or give me “fill in the blank.”
Have you ever said or thought those statements to yourself. I know I had, many times. We all have made those types of statements to ourselves or to other people, probably more than once in life.
Those statements don’t and will not help us in life, ever. They only tear us down instead of building us up to where God wants us to be. No one will have faith if all they think is nothing good ever happens to them.
Yes, there are times in my own life when it seems like everything is going wrong, and I can in no way get ahead no matter what I do. There also are times where everything is going my way, and it is like I can’t lose at all. Both of those feelings are just seasons in our lives that will come and go like the sweet summer breeze.
I don’t care who it is. No one has everything going their way all of the time. If we think we know people like that, it is most likely a figment of our imagination, or they are just putting on a show in hopes the whole world will see how great they are.
Trust me when I say the whole world is not interested in their fake show. The world wants something more relatable to inspire it to keep going during a down time in life.
I think everyone can feel like a victim at one point or another in life. This is the more realistic view of life. Those times, more than ever, are the times we must remember what God has done for us in our past.
God is a very personal God who takes care of his children, whether we see it or not. His love for us is deeper than the deepest water, stronger than the mighty oak and firmer than the firmest foundation.
If we look back in our life, what do we see? Some of us will remember the time we almost died and God spared our life; the time when some of us were facing a lay-off, it was down to the last week and we finally found another job at the last minute; and even the time we were praying for something for a long time and it looked hopeless but God came through at the last minute.
A friend of mine owns a jewelry store he runs with his wife. One day my lovely fiance and I walked in to look at wedding bands. It was a very nice store, not like those big chain jewelry stores that just want to make a sale. They made us feel very important. In fact we were not the only people who were in the store that day, and they made them feel at home as well.
We told the other people hi and went about our business. I told my fiance that we were not going to buy anything that day. We were just going to look and that’s it.
As we were looking, she picked out a beautiful 18-karat gold ring; the cost was $250. I thought that wasn’t bad and maybe at tax time we’d buy that one and mine at the same time. Before I knew it, he took the ring back and polished it. I reminded her we couldn’t buy it that day.
He came back with the ring in a box and handed it to us. I said, “We don’t have the money today to pay for it.”
“Oh don’t worry,” he said, “it’s paid for.”
“What?” I said in total disbelief.
“The people who were here before paid for the ring,” he said.
I began crying and thanked God for the miracle he did for us that day.
Stories like ours or your own story get us going again. It doesn’t have to be big. It can be something as small as something you really need at the store and you get the last one.
In my experience God works in the small areas of our lives just as much as the big areas. Maybe you don’t know Christ as your savior; all you have to do is trust him with all of your heart, turn from your sins and give up your life to him.
We all are sinners in need of his forgiveness. Ask him into your heart, and remember we are to serve him, not the other way around. For the rest of us: remember what God did in the past.