Does your heart ache for something it cannot access? Do you try to numb the pain of something that just keeps eating away at you? Are you one who wants to just ignore whatever it is you can’t do anything about? Life is hard, relationships are challenging, finances fluctuate, and promises don’t come true immediately. We do what we can to encourage one another in our struggles, we stand with each other in pain, we exhort one another not to sin, we speak to truth to one another in order to infuse life, and we pray for one another when we hear of a struggle. Yet, the ache still aches, the battle still rages, the relationship does not change, and the enemy says screams things about God and us that are just not true.

I listen to people all day long, I hear their struggles, their aches, their pains and I hear the struggle. It is hard to hear how people are hurting, how people are battling, how people are sick. There are so many promises in the word of God that we are more than conquerors, we overcome by the blood of the lamb, we are blessed and highly favored, but then our reality does not match biblical truth, it is like a sword in the very place that already hurts. I may never understand the why behind the what of this reality, but one thing I do know, is that Yahweh never ceases to be a lover, a listener, a leader and a Father in our life. He does not rejoice in our suffering, He is not glad we are in a battle, but rather He is bottling up the tears, listening to every word we speak, every cry of our heart and He is not deaf to our situation, no matter what it may be.

What I have learned in the waiting, in the wondering and in the wanting is the nature of God. Now that I know His nature, the circumstances don’t move me like they used to. But what I have also learned is the authority He has given me. I used to let circumstances toss me to and fro, but God has revealed to me who I am and in that I no longer let the enemy push me around like I used to. My friends, the enemy doesn’t want you to know who God is and He doesn’t want you to know who you are, for that is a double edged sword that defeats him with one swing, one word, one look in his direction. You and Yahweh make a great team. Be encouraged!