“God, what are you doing?” Have you ever said these words? It is amazing how we allow circumstances and struggle to determine the goodness of God. We even doubt our purpose and value in God’s plan. Stop this!
We must trust in God’s plan and purpose at all times. Jesus is the perfect example. Imagine you were Jesus. People are seeking to arrest you, others are murmuring about you. It seems everyone is out to get you. Yet God’s plan trumps all human schemes. In one sentence God gives us hope in the face of tripping, being hated, or worse. “So they were seeking to arrest him, but NO ONE laid a hand on him, BECAUSE HIS HOUR HAD NOT YET COME.”
Focus on that. Believe on that. When we fully trust God we know that there is nothing that can take us out of God’s purpose. If our hour has not come, life will continue. As broadway says “the show must go on.” So realize if things aren’t moving like you would like, the hour may not have come. And then realize that if circumstance feel like you’re going to be swallowed up, fear not, for the hour has not come.
Focus on Christ. Drink of Christ. “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” If you’ve tripped or fallen, persecuted or rejected, Christ is the only answer. Trust in Him. Drink of him. You are never to far or too dry to be able to be reached by Jesus.
Take peace in knowing that your purpose is to drink of Christ, share His water, and make an impact where you are. If you are down, bring this water to those where you are. If you are up, bring the water to those around you. In the end your purpose is to drink of Jesus.
John 7:30 So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. 31 Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him. 33 Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. 34 You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” 35 The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks? 36 What does he mean by saying, ‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?” 37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.