You and your battle are tailormade for each other

Yes, you read that correctly. You were made for your current situation. Your situation was also crafted for you. God doesn't make mistakes. If you are struggling with the situation, check your heart posture. Ouch! But, you don't know how much it hurts! You don't see what they're doing. Yes that is true but also go and check your heart posture. Sometimes these situations arise to also show us the darkness that still prevails in our heart although we love God. It is not that you are living a sinful or sin conscious life. It is just that you are not perfect. You still have stuff that the Lord has to purge out of your system. We all do! And the tool that He is using, is the situation that is relentlessly causing your heart to ache right now. What will be required of you might be hard but it is not impossible.

In all things God will work for our good it says. Sometimes that good is not a physically tangible good. Sometimes the good is our character looking more like Him. Also, when we ask God to prepare us for a blessing that we desire, the preparation might not come how we want it. When we ask Him to prepare us, we are inviting Him to put us under the spiritual microscope and show us an area directly related to the desire that needs fixing. Most times we are oblivious to this small aspect of us, that if unchecked, will lead to greater problems later on. These areas can also serve as areas for the enemy to keep attacking because they are hidden access points. More than the blessing we desire, God is concerned about us looking like Him. So yes the current situation is tailormade to force you to look away from the problem and look to the Problem Solver. The longer you take to make that shift, the longer the problem will persist.

I've said this many times before and I will say it yet again. The devil is God's employee. Therefore, all of Satan's scheming have all been factored into God's overall plan for your life. Nothing at all is a surprise or a stumbling block for God. You have to get to a place where your perspective changes. And the only way to do that is to find God. To pursue Him relentlessly. To sit in His presence several times daily so that He becomes our only mirror for comparison. We will have to sit in His presence until we look like Him. We have to stop seeing ourselves as the victim and ask God what we need to learn in this situation. We have to ask God to expose to us the very things in us that are hidden from us that can, as a hairline crack, be opened up devastatingly. We have to be careful of the distractions that come in the interim. Things that try to steal our focus from figuring out the real problems. And the only way to find the real problem is to be quiet before God.

So, are you willing to do what God requires, so that He can be formed in you? Are you willing to stop looking at yourself as the victim in this current situation, and find out from God what it is that He wants you to learn? Are you willing to ask Him to examine your heart and fix its posture?

GML