Hello everyone!  Wow how time flies! I have kept saying I need to do a post but we have just been so busy. I didn’t realize it had been almost five months since the last post. Holy Smokes! Time flies – whether you’re having fun or not. :0)

I say that because that is a good start for our word today. The scripture that has been on my heart a lot lately is something David taught in Sunday school several weeks ago; Ecclesiastes 3:11 says “He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from beginning to end.”

Have you ever read Ecclesiastes?  It is….. very interesting to see the path that Solomon traveled to leave us a very profound message to live by as new covenant believers even though his message is in the old testament . Ecclesiastes has 12 chapters, so we are still working on it, but I tell you, as God has ministered to my heart, it has unveiled many struggles as well as blessing in my own spiritual walk.

At this point of the book (chapter 3 ) Solomon has been explaining the experiment he is conducting in his life as a pursuit of happiness. So far everything is vanity, meaningless. So in chapter 3 he begins to state there is a time for everything. And at the end of all “the times”, he says God makes all things beautiful in His time and that we don’t know what those times are. David described it as God has this large weaving loom, and he is weaving this very intricate tapestry. Each one of our lives is an important part of the production of this fabric. Each one of us provides a certain color, a certain pattern, that all weaves together to make this elaborate breath takingly gorgeous tapestry of fabric. From where God stands, he sees our hurt and pain, our joy and happiness and sees how it all works together; but all we see is the back of the tapestry, which is a gom of strings and knots to tie together and does not appear to make any logical pattern at all. We have to trust God that at some point ( which may not occur until we get to heaven) that we will get to see the top of the tapestry.

David and I have had a very busy ( yes let’s say busy) year this year. Between mission trips, spiritual struggles, health issues in both of us, so on so forth and what have you, our year has been “busy”. And as time went on, it became very overwhelming, and it still is. So I have found my self asking God to please let me see the top of the tapestry. Just a quick glimpse to know that He is really working all this for our good.

See as humans, it is extremely difficult for us to fathom things past this world. And sometimes while we are here, God does give us a glimpse of the pattern. It gives us hope. But rarely does this happen. Majority of the time we must rely on our faith to carry us all the way through to our final destination before we get to see the entire pattern.

I begin to think, we are not the only ones struggling. We are not the only ones that are tired. What are we (christians) supposed to do?!

The answer, seek God with all we are. In good, the bad, the scary, the sad, because he is working all things for our good (Romans 8:28). The problem is, we know this with our head, but we don’t really believe in our heart. We are simply going through the motion of trusting God instead of really trusting God.

So how do we correct this? Well that is something God is still ministering to me. Maybe He will minister the answer to you in your own circumstamce. But I promise as we make victory, I will be sure to share my praise to God of how he helped me.

Dear God,

Thank you for never giving up on me, even when my faith falters. Help me to be the Woman of God you have called me to be through every circumstance you bring me to in my life. Help my weakness to trust you completely and not just go through the motions. I praise you, for you are the most high, and worthy above all to be praised.

Amen