Struggles in life that take place in a person's life individually mark the redefinition of a person and God only begins to make sense after those struggles. Sometimes the struggles take very long depending on how long it takes an individual to accept the reality of God as God wants the individual to accept Him.
Many people have left the Christian faith because they were first rejected by the so-called brothers and sisters in Christ that defined how God feels about certain behaviors that even right and wrong is defined further by leaders of churches than God had already defined. Definition of right and wrong always bring stress since right and wrong is God's business and man has no right being right.
God, the Power behind all power, the Buddists call Him Power, others call Him Force,Light,Zeus,Allah,uMvelinqangi,uQamatha, whoever you understand Him to be has gotten lost through organized religion that many have almost rejected even God. The God of the Bible accepts everyone even if they sin and His interest is in the sinners more. God wants the rejected, the slaves,the rapists,the divorcees,the widows,the orphanes,the criminals because He once to change their story by giving them a new name but most importantly He wants to give them a new begining.
Jacob stole from His brother and lied to his father that it costed him a healthy relationship with his brother and his father's precious last days on earth. He was away from home as a reject that was condemned for cheating,stealing and lying. The God that he knew was a God who hated sin and would deal harshly with sinners. He stopped praying untill God appeared to him in a dream, his journey of discovering God had begun. After working for Laban his uncle, who cheated him 10 times and even gave him the wrong wife when he had worked for Rachel, he traced his steps back to mesopotamia, back home. Ater deviding his family into two camps and helped them to cross river Jabokk that Jacob found himswelf being attacked by a man in the night. Jacob never knew till the morning broke that the he was wrestling with the Great I AM.
It is after a real struggle in the deepest darkness of your life when even death is an option that God reintroduces Himself to you and you may wrestle with Him in your denial until He brings the light of the morning for you to recognize Him. When you have seen Him, your life and your mindset will never be the same again. Others like Isaac and Rebeca will die without the real knowledge of who God really is. Abraham had to leave his home and stay intents as a nomadic billionaire and a laughing stock who occasionally would lose his head by even sacrificing his only child before he could understand who God is. Moses had to forsake the splendor of royalty to go and look after the sheep as servant before he could hear, I AM THAT I AM. Daniel and his friends had to become teenage orphans before God could show himself to them.Nebuchadnezzar had to eat the grass and become an animal before understand who God is. Many churches and religions have presented a false image of God that many will have to struggle and wrestle before God can be a reality in their lives.We need to look for Him while He may yet be found.
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To all those who are going through trials and tribulations of any kind, a loss of a jobe, a death in the family, a marriage on the rocks. I wish to remove your attention from the issues that contaminate your story to look to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. He wil one day wipe the tears from our eyes and His grory will eclipse every dark memory. Look to Jesus this morning.