Sometimes we pray "Father this is more than I can handle or I don't want to deal with this anymore, please take it away from me." I know that I have prayed that prayer many times in my life. If we are honest we may have even prayed that prayer(in secret) about things that we like but we know are not good for us?
As I think about it today, I believe God, in His wisdom does take away those things that we truly can not handle. But more often than not He empowers us with the strength and wisdom to give up those things that are not good for us and cause us to stumble needlessly.
I believe sometimes we get caught up in waiting for God to remove obstacles from our path when He is challenging us to choose a different path. Give up our way and go the way He is leading us. That is not to say that there will never be obstacles on the path that God has chosen for us because there will be. The difference is as we go through them they become smaller and smaller, our God becomes bigger and bigger, and our faith grows stronger and stronger. So as our faith, strength, and wisdom matures in Him we can give up praying that he take away all of our obstacles and say thank you for bringing us through because in the end It's All Good!
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- Long Beach, CA, United States
- Maisha is a registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern with Turning Point Counseling. She has a passion for helping people achieve wholeness through acceptance and loving themselves as they are understanding that God created us all with awesome potential. Growth and change can be very difficult, but “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” Philippians4:13. She believes that the foundation of achieving and maintaining healthy relationships is congruent communication. Maisha has worked with a culturally and clinically diverse client base that includes: couples, substance abuse, intimacy issues, and domestic violence. She also worked with problems such as anger management, parenting, depression, anxiety, assertiveness/self esteem, grief and loss, self harm, divorce, family, illness, and disabilities.
Love it! It is so much easier sometimes to ask God to take away or remove us from difficult situations. But God would rather help us face them to make us stronger. Thanks
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