We look around and see so many challenges. For ourselves, how will we pay the bills, care for our family, make the right decisions? For our leaders, with so many interest groups how will they decide what is truly best for the people? For our church, how will it respond to the many needs of our community and congregation and still follow Jesus?
Our inclination often is to throw up our arms and say, “We, they, it can never get everything done the right way.” It is indeed overwhelming if we approach it from our human perspective. We do not have the ability, wisdom, patience to meet all these challenges.
The good news is that we are not asked to meet all these challenges alone because we will surely fail. God is with us and “for God all things are possible.” Therefore approach these challenges knowing that God will take over where we fall short. Approach each challenge with confidence and do what you can accomplish. Work with fellow Christians on the bigger challenges. Pray for the Lord to be with you and trust that he will finish the task.
However, don’t give up, sit on the sidelines, or wait for someone else to step forward. It is when we are involved, trying, straining that we are best able to feel the Lord working with us to meet the challenges and leading us on.
Prayer: Dear God, let us be involved in meeting the challenges we face with confidence that You are with us and that with You all things are possible. Amen.
David R. Zimmer
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