“Your situation doesn’t compare with Who God is.”
That sounds harsh when you first hear it, doesn’t it. It stings a little bit when it hits your ears, because our situations can be big.
Life-changing.
Sunday morning as I jotted those words down in my notes and heard the verse Jeremiah 29:11 quoted and 1 John 4:4, too…I do what I always do and flip to the beginning of my week on my planner. It’s a habit to just see if the verses I wrote down in January line up with my week. It’s kind of a little game I like to play, because I like things that can’t be explained and work out to show the omniscience of God. So, when I flipped over and see Jeremiah 29:11 wrote down and 1 John 4:19, I smiled a little in my comfortable, padded pew and knew God had something for me there in those scriptures that would take me through this week and outside my comfort zone. What makes it even more awesome is that the day before, Tucker asked me what Jeremiah 29:11 said, because it is on my studio doors. I quoted it to him and then after he heard it again, he leaned over and said, “That’s cool, Mama…that’s the verse on your door from yesterday.”
When Jeremiah gave these words to the Jews who were in exile in Babylon…some who they knew would die there because it would be 70 years…that was big and life-changing. They heard these words and could be assured that God had not forsaken them and they would be restored. They had a future from their current situation.
Has God changed? Of course not.
We can rest assured as well, friend. If you are in Christ, God has plans for you and you will not be where you are forever. God is bigger than your situation. You have a hope in Christ, but not a guarantee that everything will be sunflowers and sunshine all the time.
If you are in Christ, the One who is within you is greater than the one who is in this world (1 John 4:4).
He is life-changing.
Don’t let your situation overshadow the Savior. He was faithful in Jeremiah and he will be faithful in your suffering, too.
The last couple of weeks have been sorta trying for me in several ways and there are a few things that I keep praying about that I haven’t seen come to pass…
…but, I will.
My situations do not compare to WHO my God is!
What about 1 John 4:19? “We love because He first loved us.”
He loves me. That’s more than enough.
That right there is a whole field of sunflowers!
