Going It Alone?

Do you ever feel like you are trudging through this valley and you're trying to get to the end? Trying to climb higher, trying to make it work, and no matter how hard you try, you feel like you are all alone? You know what I mean. i mean you feel like God is a million miles away not doing a single thing to help you along. If we're honest.....really honest......I think we could all say that we have been there before.

I think those times are part of all of our growing processes. We walk....God watches.

At least we think he's just watching.

He's not.

He's working on our behalf.

I was reading the other day in Numbers , adn I came across the story of Balaam. Now the whole Balaam story is thrown right in the middle of the children of Israel's Exodus from Egypt and their 40 year march through the wilderness. They're marching and then we get this story of Balaam who gets hired to curse the children of Israel. Now I'll save you the time of the whole flannel graph story and just recommend that you go read it for yourself. But my point is that the whole time the children of Israel were marching through the wilderness, perhaps thinking God was no where around, He was actually just over the mountain protecting them from curses and attacks.

The children of Israel were clueless as to what was going on. They were just marching in their misery, but God was on task.

I wonder how many times we are marching through life struggling. Asking for God's help. Struggling day in and day out. Even getting mad at God for "doing nothing" on our behalf. Thinking we are all alone on this journey. Maybe even thinking or feeling that God has forgotten where you are.

The encouraging thing is to know that even though we sometimes feel alone in the valley, God is just over the rise fighting for us. Turning those curses of the enemy into blessings from the throne room. I don't know about you, but for me, it's awesome to be reminded that God is not just around, He's practically working and maneuvering things in life to make sure that I'm blessed. My job is to merely stay on course. Don't waver. Don't stray. Stay the course.