I was listening to Bishop Eddie Long one night and his sermon spoke to me in a way that touched me. In his sermon, he used the example of a father taking something away from his child, something that the child loved very much. However, the child only loved it so much because he wasn't aware of the fact that there was something even better than what he had out there waiting for him in life. The child was unaware that he had higher blessings waiting for him in the Kingdom of God. Therefore, the child cried, and became sad because he lost something that he thought was good.
In the eyes of the father, he had taken away the "toy" the child had, in order to give his son a shiny, new bike. Bishop Eddie Long used this example of the toy to illustrate how God often does us. We cry and pray and have the nerve to get very upset over life's trials, and then when things are taken away from us, whether it be a man, woman, family member, material things, or a job, we feel as if God has taken something very valuable from us and we are hurt. In all honesty, it usually is something or someone that we have put a lot of worth into and means a lot to us. It could be a person that we think we can not live without. However, if we were to allow ourselves to step out of the box for a minute and think along the lines that ‘God has NEVER taken anything or anyone out of my life and not given them something even better’ we would be better off in the end.
After losing someone from our lives, it is a very emotional time and we are still emotionally attached to that person and feel that they are still with us in spirit. Your loved one may have seemed to have left you now, which is devastating, but if you allow him to God will change things in you to prepare you for the changed man/woman you're praying about. Then, he will make that person an even better person than you ever imagined them to be!
The same goes for jobs. I lost a job that I truly thought was the best job ever and I thought I would keep that job for years. The job was in my field, it was nearby, it paid well, and I loved going to work everyday. But when God all of a sudden took that job from me, I was so hurt that I cried. My husband did his best to encourage me, but I honestly didn't even want to work in my field anymore. It was GOD that stepped in and showed me that I had been on that job for the time he intended me to be there, but it was time for me to get an even better job, and do even bigger things.
The point I'm trying to stress here is that God will never take anything away from you without giving you something ten times better than what you had, so rejoice in trials, rejoice in tribulations, and just rejoice to be rejoicing. If you know like I know, then you know God has a plan bigger than anything we could ever conceive.
Be blessed in the Lord family!
Ebony Adams is an inspirational blogger at Ebony’s Intricate Mind. She currently works in information technology and is an aspiring author. Visit her on the web at http://ebonysintricatemind.blogspot.com/
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