Life And Living. Part Twenty-seven.
Why Am I Struggling So.
Life and Living Part Twenty-Seven.
Have you ever been a little tired when you intended to be busy and “get a little work done?” That is the way I feel now; "a little drowsy." But I would like to get some writing done.
Topics or thoughts aren't oozing from my fingertips onto the keyboard.
There have been times when I couldn't type fast enough because the ideas were flowing like water over a waterfall. They couldn't be stopped.
That is Life and Living.
Things sometimes go differently than we would like them to be going. I won't always say that is how God wants it to be, but it might be.
What if God wants me to have a difficult time writing something at this time?
Maybe I wanted to write something that God was saving for a later time.
Maybe God didn't want me to write it at all.
Perhaps I didn't have the experience to get the point across to my readers.
Maybe. Maybe, Maybe, and perhaps again.
Trying to think what God was thinking at any particular time does me no good.
That might be trying to blame God for what might not be his fault. But I believe God cares about what I write and whether I write.
Trying to get specific thoughts on paper might be just as crucial as your struggle.
When we struggle with something, is it a sign that God doesn't want us to work at it?
If what we are trying to do is good, we had better keep at it as it is what God probably wants us to do.
Think about Noah’s struggles. I am sure he had some. What is it that I am even building? I have never seen one before.
Abraham struggled. “Will a son be born to a man 100 years old?”
We know how Moses struggled with his troupe of complainers.
The lives of the Israelite Judges were nothing but struggles. And how about the Old Testament Prophets? We don’t even need to talk about their struggles. All of these had their difficulties, and now, why do we question our struggles?
We bear them. We keep plodding along because we feel it is something we should be doing. The Spirit inside us leads us. We can’t stop doing what he wants done.
We ask ourselves: “Is what we are doing worth it?” “Is it something that would be good to do?”
Since there is nothing wrong with what we are doing – continue the struggle to do it to completion.
That is Living Life through the struggles.
7/18/2020 Larry E. Whittington
Thank you. And Happy New Year: 2024