Where are you God?
Life can seem very hard and unfair at times.
When facing the loss a job, a divorce, illness, or some other serious problem, you might begin to ask yourself “when will God help me?” It may even get to the point where we may start to feel abandoned and alone.
And then someone like me, a friend of yours, or a minister comes along and tells you “to have faith in God because God will never leave you or let you fall completely” or that “this is the time He is working to make you stronger.” But to you these are only words. Your situation may seem so desperate that you cannot even relate to this.
Rather than just relying on the words others give you that seem to just be “words” without any basis in reality, look to the testimony from others who have previously been in similar situations as you find yourself now.
I previously went through an extraordinary time when it seemed as if the world was crashing in around me. God came to my rescue and I hadn’t even realized it until afterward when I had time to sit back and reflect on the whole ordeal. I wrote about this in my article called “Turning Obstacles into Opportunities” which can be read here
What I have learned is that God is with us all of the time even when we might not feel Him close to us. In fact, it seems to me that the times that I might feel He is not as close to me as I think He should be or would like Him to be is because I don’t recognize that those are the times He is working the hardest for me. I might get so wrapped up in my own despair that I don’t take time to slow down and feel Him close to me.
Sometimes keeping your faith in God can be very difficult. There are times that become so trying that you can’t imagine that He is even still with you. In fact, you may even feel that God might be testing you.
In the Bible we find the story of Job. Job is tested to see how far he could be pushed before He curses God. Job’s family, wealth, and health are taken from him. In fact, Job becomes such a broken man that at one point he even says:
"I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.” Job 30:20
We have all been in circumstances where this might sound quite familiar to us. But in Job’s case, even though he may question God’s actions and, in fact, express anger and frustration with God, he never speaks ill of God, questions God’s existence, or the fact that God is his advocate:
“Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him” Job 13:15
Job also says:
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.” Job 19:25
In the end, we find that through Job’s trials, Job learns to see God more clearly and that Job loves God despite everything he has been put through and as a reward God returns to Job everything taken from him and more.
It is through stories such as Job’s and the testimony of others who have gone through trials before us that we can gain some comfort that we are not alone in troubled times.
Take some time to read through the comments others have shared with us both on The Whisper of God website which can be found at www.TheWhisperofGod.com and The Whisper of God facebook page which can be found at www.facebook.com/TheWhisperofGod . In these comments you will find testimonies from others who have traveled the road of trial and tribulation before you.
Through these stories you can see how others came out stronger when they reached the other end of their journey. These stories that will help you keep the faith that God is always working for you.
Keeping the faith while going through troubling times may be one of the most difficult things to do. Yet keeping the faith is exactly what will help get you through those troubling times.
i dont have a clue what’s going on anymore… and God has got to be looking down on me as perplexed as I at how i got where i am…
1Just about says it all. I ask for forgiveness , He forgave me . I prayed, he heard me .
2We have had several of these kind of stories.. One just not more than a year and ahalf ago…My husband worked for that county as a sargent..We thought that we where going to lose our house, car, and we had bills to pay.. We prayed to find a way to take care of all of this…because we didn’t know where to start.. My husband ended up on LI from a injury at work.. So he could only work part time.. Things weren’t looking very good..(It is all about trust and faith in the Lord.) One of the days when he was going to work He had the radio on this one station. He was listening to this man talking to other people about debt and how to get out of it. He listen a few time to this guy before he finally told me about him..My husband said this guy make sense.. Lets see if we can fine a class in our area. So we scraped the money together to take this class. Trusting and having faith in the Lord that he would guide us to the Class.. We found a class in our area.. God truely Blessed us with the teaching that this man had for us..In less than a year we oursleves with God’s help where able to pay off $30,000 in debt.. We are one bill away from being debt free. And we owe it all to the Lord. We owe all that we have to Him..We Love You God For Being In Our Lives Always and Never Leaving Us Alone…You are Our everything…
3I believe that God allows challenges to come into our lives to prepare us for some work He has for us to do.
4This year has been a lesson in acceptance and learning to rely fully on God. I call it FROG(fully relying on God). This has been my FROG year.
My husband was laid off, I found out he had made some financial commitments without my knowledge, my son is unemployed and I learned that my job may not be there in the near future.
I have had to seek God more this year than I have in a long time. But through all this we have our house, we have food and my husband is going back to work in January. I know God has a plan and I seek His will everyday.
Thank you Jesus for saving my soul and my life!
I know that God is out there, but sometimes i feel like he has turned his face away from me. I have lost my job just a week ago which could be a good thing because i keep telling myself that God has something better for me. But when is it going to get here? I lost both my parents, two weeks apart in June of 2008 and had a really hard time with it. I thought that the coming of 2009 had to be a better year but it wasn’t. It was worse and now i sit here in 2010, unemployed, bills piling up, and i wonder what am i going to do? Where are you God when i need you the most? I find it easy to get into the thinking that “poor me” mindset and think that God doesn’t like me, but i know deep down that it’s not true. He saved me at a time in my life when my whole world fell apart and now this is just a hurddle i have to get over. I will wait on him because i know that he loves me and has a better life out there for me.
5I have ALWAYS known God is there ~ or so i thought. The last few months, I am alone, scared, tried suide, I am spinning out of control with every part of my life. MY 15 year old son is putting me to the test major, my marriage stinks, and I am at a dead in job that pays nothing and they want perfection. I give so much ~ i try so hard. I even work off the clock at work to do extra because of the people that work there …….. most do not care what gets done or not. I out down rules for my oldest son, and my husband takes them away, and lets him come and go as he pleases, and does what he wants. Children need boundaries, I try to put that in motion and I am the “B”. If I say ONE word, have an opinion or anything I am a nag or the “B”. I am in a no win situation. I have been begging God for guidence and help.
I have prayed and prayed and prayed and begged SOOOOOO much and so hard.
I dont know where to turn anymore, or where to go. I used to be a self confident woman, now ~ it is everything i can do just to get out of bed in the morning, or find a reason to.
I am so lost ~ and it seems like God is not hearing me. I pray so much for help and guidence. But not hearing or seeing anything different. My life is spinning MORE out of control instead.
I have NEVER doubted God – NEVER. But this last few days ~ i have to admit, if this is a test ~ i am failing.
I dont know what to do anymore ~
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