God Are You With Us?

Scripture Judges 6:13 Gideon said to Him, “O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.”

Observation: It seems when things get bad in this world we are ready to blame God. If there was a God none of this would happen seems to be the cry of those that don’t know Him. We don’t want to take the blame ourselves when things go wrong, even though it was our poor judgment and not asking God for guidance before we get into these messes. Our Lord said we would have trials and tribulations, but that He will always be with us, if we let Him. We do things the way we want to do them and it’s not until all is lost that we bring God into the equation and that is usually only to blame Him for our stupidity.

Application: I need to seek God before I do anything and if I mess up and do something on my own without His counsel I need to be man enough to admit it and ask for my Lord’s forgiveness. I know I’ll come up against trials in my life and the more I try to be what God calls me to be, Satan will take a shot, but that is when I need to focus more on God and less on my situation.

Prayer: My Lord forgive me for my stupidity at times and give me wisdom to seek you in all that I do. I know you want the best for me and that you desire me to bear fruit before coming home. Show me the way to live that I’ll be able to build up treasures at home and bring a smile to your face when you think of me.