Kind God

Happy Saturday friends! I wanted to share something that God has been subtly showing me as a hope that it will encourage whoever this post comes across.

As I’ve mentioned a few times in my past posts regarding how transitional and transformational this year has been for me, I haven’t really shared or spoke about also how hard certain parts of transition has been as well. Today I want to share a genuine yet different perspective on transition and how God is always strategic and intentional in everything He does and allows.

So transparently speaking this past week was pretty hard for me. There were a lot of moving pieces happening in different areas of my life, even the things that weren’t directly affecting me, affected me in a second hand manner. I was also reminded of how heavy carrying the weight an assignment is. In understanding that everything is spiritual, I was reminded that even what I may consider minuscule has great impact on a larger scale. As I evolve I can genuinely say that I handle opposition or hard things better now than I ever have before (shout out to those therapeutic skills lol). Even though I’ve been managing through the changes of my life, I am also acknowledging that it genuinely is hard some or dare I say most days.

In the hard moments is where I’ve truly been experiencing the kindness of God. God has been reminding me that when I’m in my head about how things look or even feel TO ME, that there is something more beautiful to focus on. That would be me focusing on the blessings behind the hard, focusing on the outcome in how God showed up in the hard, focusing on how God protects me in the hard as well. I could go on and on because all of these things are the true kindness of God’s nature.

I mentioned before of how I’ve been experiencing God Father me in such a profound way. Like a good parent who prepares well for their children, I’m tangibly seeing God do that for me in the hard. Even though it’s not only in the hard where I experience his kindness, it’s in the moments that He expresses His kindness to me. It’s always in the moments where I need it the most. It’s in those moments where I often step back and notably say “God you are kind to me.”

I share this experience to say that God’s character is unmatched. He will literally be everything that you need Him to be and more. He won’t fail you or let you fall even when it’s hard. I like to think of the hard as character development (perspective shift). I used to think that things being hard meant that life or even God was trying to “break” me. However as I glean on to the true character of God, God was never trying to “break” me. In hindsight I know that nothing catches God by surprise and that He always has a plan for everything concerning me. As long as I trust him, stay the course, and walk in obedience to the path He has me on, I’ll always have everything that I need and more and that is and can be true for you too! I personally can attest that God’s track record is credible.

Today I pray that those who may feel like life is just hard in every way, or those who feel like the can’t settle or find stability in their day to day life and hard is heavier than you have strength to carry, I pray that not only the kindness of God will permeate your heart, but that God’s full character will speak profoundly in ways that are needed on your behalf.

With love,

-Yours Truly, Eb