1Corinthians 14:33 (NLT)
“For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the meetings of God’s holy people.”
When you’ve hit a brick wall in your circumstances, and you feel as though you’ve utilized all your resources with no positive results, what do you do? You’ve prayed, fasted, stayed in God’s Word, and yet the situation doesn’t budge. What now?
As God’s children, the one thing we must never do is give up. Galatians 6:9(NLT) tells us, “So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up.” This is an awesome verse, and God didn’t arbitrarily put this in His Word. Like every piece of scripture, He speaks to our humanity and makes it known that He is our Creator and there’s nothing about our lives that He doesn’t know. When we’ve prayed, fasted, been a blessing to others and done all the other Godly things we know to do, we might be tempted to give up if our circumstances don’t change. God knows this. He knows our frame and the mental and emotional struggles that can get us down. He wants us to be patient.
At just the right time, we’ll reap a harvest of blessing if we continue to remain faithful to Him. We might then ask, “Well, what is just the right time?” It might look like it’s taking too long, but that’s our timetable, not God’s. His timing is perfect, and this is a truth that we need to let get deep in our minds and hearts. God knows when and how to bless us, and He knows what to bless us with. He has a timetable for these things, and we need to settle into this knowledge in a way that grounds us in unwavering faith in Him.
Hitting a brick wall tells us that we have exhausted all our resources, but we can’t ever exhaust all of God’s. So, we need to go higher in order to see His resources in a greater way. Often, there’s a spiritual lesson attached to our circumstances that we have yet to learn. In all cases, that lesson is about a piece of the example of Christ that we have not put on in our hearts and minds. We have misunderstood God’s requirement for holiness and behaved in a way that doesn’t represent His love.
As Christians, God requires us to wait patiently on Him. Psalm 37:7 (NLT) says “Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.” As we wait on the Lord, it is not uncommon for the enemy to plant seeds of confusion, doubt, and false accusations against God in our minds. 1Corinthians 14:33 tells us that God is not the author of confusion, so we know that any time that it slips in, the enemy is trying to stir up his evil business. James 4:7(NLT) gives us the remedy for this. It says, “So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” To humble ourselves before God, we must surrender to Him. We must be willing to learn what our Heavenly Father is teaching us so that we are armed with His Word and power. Then the enemy has no choice but to flee.
It is our responsibility to renew our minds to God’s Word when confusion kicks in. 2Corinthians 10:5(NIV) says, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” God has pulled us out of the world through Christ, and we must leave a worldly mindset behind. He tells us to capture our thoughts and teach them to obey our Lord and Savior. Our thoughts must be lined up with the mind of Christ, and not with our own opinions and assumptions about what is right. God is right! Holiness is right, and when we put on more of God’s Word and begin to understand things spiritually, confusion will fall away and leave love, peace, and Godliness in its place.■
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
“What to Do When Confusion Kicks in”, written for Springfield Fellowship © 2024. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
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