Trusting God When Things Go Wrong

This past week taught me a painful lesson. And hopefully by sharing, it will keep some of you from making the same mistake. It’s amazing how you can put your heart and time into a friendship or relationship and it can end in just an instant.

Please know that whatever I share is not meant for the purpose of gossip. It’s also not because I’m emotionally unstable and feel the need to blast my feelings all over the internet – the reason I do this and put myself out there is to hopefully help other girls who might go through the same things. If you are headed in this direction, I want to steer you away. I figure, what is the point in learning lessons and keeping them to yourself and not sharing them?

This past week someone tried to steal something that was precious to me. And he may have accomplished what he set out to do, but he did not win. Though naturally it looks like he won, God is still God at the end of the day, and supernaturally, who knows what can happen.

Please be careful to guard your heart and not just share it with anyone who will listen. Even if this person seems like a decent person, if you are having an issue, it's best to talk about it with the person you are having the issue with - rather than seeking advice elsewhere. I thought I knew this...but sometimes we need reminders. We are human. We slip and fall. No one is perfect.

Have you ever experienced someone who attacked your character, lied or tried to make you fall? Out of jealousy they might have tried to take something good from you, but know that this situation is in God’s hands. You don’t need to get revenge or payback.

The day after this terrible event happened, I felt led to pick up where I left off in the book If Not for the Grace of God by Joyce Meyer. I have many books which I leave bookmarks wherever I left off. I never finish one book and go onto the next. I like to have a variety. If I get bored with one I’ll move onto the next and come back to that one later.

So I open up this book to where I had left off about a month earlier and read about the favor of Esther over Queen Vashti. It talks about “natural” favor versus “supernatural favor”. Men may be able to take from you, but they cannot take from God, and if God is watching over you – they better watch out! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read this, because it related to exactly what I was going through.

The paragraph read:

 “If you find yourself in a situation where you are being harassed, persecuted or discriminated against, if someone is trying to take something from you that rightfully belongs to you-whether it is your job, your home, your reputation, or anything in life – don’t try to retaliate by seeking natural favor. Instead, believe God for supernatural favor, because despite how hopeless things may look from a human perspective, God can lift up and He can bring down.”

What this person did was try to taint my character by spreading lies, which in turn cost me a relationship that was special to me. And this was all out of jealousy.

I know that it’s hard when something just disappears before your eyes  - but we have to trust God that if it is truly for us, He will bring it back. If you are meant to be in a certain relationship, God will give you favor in that person’s eyes.

Also near that paragraph was this verse:

“And the king loved Esther more than all of the women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other maidens, so that he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.” – Esther 2:15-17

If you have someone trying to steal from you, remember that no one can take away what God has for you! If it is yours, it will return to you.

Blessings. Love you guys!