The Miracles in the Trials

Do you believe that God can use even the worst of situations to teach us something new? I do.

Today, in our Sunday School Class we talked about the different roles of a husband and a wife. One of the roles is that the husband is the one that takes on the responsibility of taking care of the family, protecting the family, providing for them. This really gripped me because I tend to want to be the protector of everyone; even my husband. God has been talking to me about this subject for a week now. Oh, not quite in the same words, but still... with my husband facing a lawsuit for money that we didn't even know that we owed until a year ago, I wanted to run into that court and be his big defender. God has been dealing with me about Him being Ray's defender and allowing Ray to learn to protect me and his family. I want to be the champion in this fight but God says that the only champion can be Him. I need to trust in, first God, next my husband.

I seem to be talking a lot about John11:40, but God is really trying to instill in me the believing in Him and expecting Him to be glorified. I am also seeing that sometimes the miracles in our lives that are most important are the ones that happen while we are going through the trials. If I just believe, trust in Him and let Him take care of our problem with this collector than God will do something to glorify Himself. I only have to praise Him in the end. In the next two verses Jesus says, " Father, I thank You that You have heard Me, I knew that You always hear Me; but because of the people standing around I said it, so that they may believe that You sent Me." When I read this verse yesterday it hit me that the only way that people will believe in Jesus and know that God sent Him is if we as Christian become vocal witness to Him. If God gives Ray and I a miracle on Tuesday and we don't become vocal about it how will people know Jesus and believe in Him? I just pray that when the time comes that I have the courage to be vocal about God's blessing and miracles on our behalf. If I don't then someone else will, or worse, the rocks and the hills will cry out for me.