Here is what I know about God. He can do anything and everything. Here is what I know about me. Sometimes I want a miracle. There was a time I prayed for a miracle for seven years, but God just didn’t seem to be working on it. What I found at the end of those seven years was that He was working on me. Then I received my miracle.
When I believe my prayers align perfectly with God’s will and yet nothing seems to be happening, I ask myself a question: Is there something you believe God wants you to do in this situation? Often the answer to my question pops right into my head. Yes, of course, he’d want me to do this or that! But I don’t want to! Or, that’s impossible! Or, it would be so much easier for everyone if God just provided that miracle! Easy answers don’t provide spiritual growth. God wants me to grow in His love.
My Father is so good. He knows how important it is for me to become eager to do His will. When I humble myself and act in accordance to His guidance, He blesses my effort. When I am walking alongside Him, my hand in His, my trust in Him and my life given to Him, I am like a loving child abiding with her parents, longing to please them. And she is blessed even more.
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. James 1:23-25
Meeting God at the Park 