Sometimes in obedience to God I feel like I'm going to break under the weight of what I'm bearing up under, but it's in these times when I remember that I'm not ever walking through any of it alone. I pause and I draw from the Holy Spirits presence within me and I find what I need to press through.
Pride is what isolates us and cuts us off from God but it's humility before Him that is the key that opens up the strength of grace to overcome.
It opens up the ability to trust in His ways, to trust in His timing, and to trust in His goodness. It's in this place where I lean into Him and it's here and only here in Him where I truly find peace.
Not peace without problems, without suffering, or without persecution, but rather in Christ I have peace in the midst of all these things and can hold onto the hope that what I'm working towards in obedience to Him will be worth everything I've endured because in the end whether I fail or I succeed I've found myself closer to Him; and that's all that really matters in the end.
"Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you."
1 Peter 5:6
