All of us can agree that many times life’s situations have a way of pressing in upon us. What we see becomes the measure stick to the level of our happiness. When this takes place, the enemy does his job of bringing disillusionment and depression, and our vision becomes hindered by all of the obstacles that we see. Yet God’s word tells us that it is during these times that He is working something in us that is refreshing and beautiful. We don’t want to agree with this until we are through the situations, but all of us can see back through some difficult times and see His hand working out good in us. This passage of scripture give us vision and hope during times of pressing. As Christians we have been given the promise of Gods word, that our current situations are working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. We all question this by saying, I don’t see it, all I feel is the pain in it. This is where faith comes in, we must arise in faith and realize that God is there working something wonderful in us.

God had promised us in Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. This promise is not for the unbeliever but to the believer. This revelation is the difference between you walking in victory or walking in a defeated mentality. God in His sovereign power, somehow works everything out for the good. He can take the impossible and do something incredible. This truth is the backbone of our faith, God is faithful and He will not leave us nor forsake us. Even in those times of rebellion and stubborn attitudes, once we turn to Him, He takes it all and does a miracle in our lives. I can’t explain the inner transformation that takes place during testing, but it does. Paul tells them to not look at the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen. That which you see today is temporary and those who live by the temporary are blind to the reality of blessing that God has for them. Living this way we don’t see any benefit in any situation that we don’t agree with because we are living by sight, rather than by faith.

All through the bible we have examples of those who allowed their temporary situation to dictate their attitude toward their life and Gods care for them. He rebuke them and said to them, ”where is you faith?” Jesus was with them, but they defined God by what they saw, rather than by what He said! Yes they were going to see the visual blessing that He promised for them, but they were also going to be set free and changed in the process. There is realm of living that says, “God is for me, who can be against me?” and as we remember the word of God, we fuel our faith for the situation and we come through it with vision and hope. My son told me the other day that he wanted to be tall like his father. In the middle of the night he came into me saying, “Dad, my legs hurting me, make them stop hurting!” I told him, Jonathon, you want to be tall like dad, those pains that you are feeling in your legs are the sign that your body is growing. It is the same in our walk with God, sometime we go through growing pain, and if we can rather than look at our difficult surrounding, look to His word, we too will embrace the process because it is the very thing that is working the blessing in us. But it is during these times that the devil attacks the hardest because our flesh is screaming for escape. This is the time to press into God, by prayer and worship and studying His word.

I believe that God is teaching us to embrace the process as equal to the fulfillment. God is working everything out for the good, because we love Him and are called according to His purpose. Learn to see the eternal that is God word for your situation. Don’t allow the lies of the enemy to distort your circumstances, but stop and say, God help me see what You are doing in my life. For He promised that everything would work out for the good to those who love Him. So rather than continue in frustration and fear, arise in faith and live in the revelation of Gods Word. Knowing that all things you are facing will end up blessing you in some miraculous way! That is why Paul said, “We don’t lose heart!” for God is working something for us awesome!