For the longest time, I’ve kept a score with God, holding a grudge with Him, asking “Why did you have to make it so hard?”
Whether it was praying for healing or money or a breakthrough, it always felt like He’d bring me to the lowest of the lowest valley before lifting me up again.
Do you ever feel that way, too?
But a friend sent these verses to me—
Deut 8:16-18: “He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness… to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. You may say to yourself, ‘My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.’ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant…”
Suddenly it dawned upon me- that while I resent the testing and humbling, they are for one purpose- “that it might go well with (me).” For how often are we quick to claim credit for all we’ve achieved, how quickly do we feel entitled to the sunrise when we’ve never walked in darkness?
Friend, if you feel tested beyond repair, know this— in the testing, is an entrusting. In the entrusting, is a deep love that “in the end it might go well with you.” 🌅