Over the past several days, I’ve had the opportunity to encourage people to turn to God amid their situations and circumstances. I love these moments to encourage others to consider God.
In our conversations, I challenged them to imagine holding their situation in their hands, feeling the weight, and then simply saying, “God, I don’t know what to do with this. Will you help me? Will you help them? Would you increase my belief in you?”
Often, we come to God with seemingly unreasonable requests and then feel disappointed when He doesn’t fulfill our desires. Demanding, “God, do this or else I won’t believe,” seems unreasonable to me. What if we approached God with open hands and minds, willing to let God be God? Maybe His ways are not our ways. Maybe God isn’t orchestrating every event. But perhaps, just maybe, He is open to interacting in response to our belief—that He can move mountains, change hearts, and be with us in the valley of the shadow of death.
Hold out open hands, and let’s see what God might do!
