Embracing Discomfort: Trusting in God’s Greatness

I would rather fail because I couldn’t do it than because I was too afraid to try. 

Doing new things feels painfully overwhelming. I struggled to get up this morning. The truth is that I didn’t want to face the day or my daily routine. Writing for hours, when it feels like I don’t know what I’m doing, makes me want to cry and give up on it all. 

But I know what’s at stake. The thought of losing my gift and my dream encourages me to try again. As I sit here with tears in my eyes and prayers on my lips, I realize I have a choice. With God, it’s all about choices. I can use these tears as a sign of weakness and defeat, or I can use them as a weapon to keep going. I can use my voice to surrender or to beg for strength. 

God understands my tears. And it usually gets harder before it gets better. 

Therefore, I can push through the discomfort and straight into the arms of my Lord. What if I had just accepted that I was lost? If I hadn’t pushed through the discomfort, the lies of the enemy, and my fears, I would have never been saved. What if I had run out of the church that night instead of my Lord’s arms? I would have remained lost, in pain, and hopeless. 

I didn’t know how to get saved. I just followed the call of my Lord. In His arms, I realized I didn’t need to know the how; I just needed to understand why I desired Him. The greatest blessing of my life was on the other side of the discomfort. The burden provided the way. 

Without understanding that I was lost, I couldn’t have been saved. Sometimes, we have to understand our limitations and failures to experience God in all of His greatness. If I can do it, then it’s not of God. 

God doesn’t expect me to do great things. He expects me to BELIEVE and TRUST that He can do great things. If I do it, then I deserve the praise. But if God comes through and does it after I have tried numerous times and failed, He awes me. And in my awed state I can praise the Lord with all my heart. 

Everything we do should glorify the Lord, not ourselves. Struggling makes us humble and lets us know who is doing the work. 

Sweet friends, I needed this encouragement this morning. It reminded me that the struggle is part of it. 

2 Corinthians 12:8-9 KJV

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

But, we can overcome it all through God. He is greater than any hardship and He lives in us. 

1 John 4:4 KJV

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

We have everything we need. It’s all inside of us. We just have to let God teach us so we can learn how to use it. 

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