God Sees Conflict as an Opportunity to Draw Closer

Conflict in our lives is unmistakingly undeniable…

Whether that’s through martial issues, financial struggles, family tension, friendships shifting, an unexpected diagnosis etc. The battle between how we thought everything would go, and the current reality of today offer us unique opportunities to press into the Lord and be strengthened by His love. But let’s be honest, when life becomes a bit too painful it can be easy to start to question amidst the brokenness…

“God, where are you?”

Where is God when that one person you held so dear suddenly becomes distant?
Where is God when your body begins to fail, and you feel like a shell?
Where is God when the exhaustion is so tangible you can barely get out of bed?
Where is God when your loved one passes?
Where is God when the rejection is all you can think of?
Where is God when that bill comes in the mail that you can’t bare to open?
I’ll tell you where He is…

Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”

God never leaves you sitting there, stranded, alone, and helpless. In fact, God uses conflict to show us just how close He moves in, and just how much He cares. It is in the quiet hours of the night, when your heart feels like a rock in your chest, or in the business of the day when life pulls at you from all angles…God shows us that our weaknesses don’t deter Him from our presence. Not only that…they don’t stop Him from fulfilling His plans for our lives.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Despite the unknowns, the tension, the refining, the pain…we have the hope and assurance that God is with us through it all, and by the death of His son we are being made more every day into His image and that the promises of God, despite what the enemy is trying to tell you, are yes and amen!

God, with His tender mercies and perfect character invites us to lean on Him and drawn from His unending well of strength. Because in this life, trials will come, but our hope is found in the perfect love of Christ, and the knowledge that one day, we will hurt no more, that it was all worth it.

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