In these last years of my life, God has given me new
visions and he has been working in them. When I heard his voice and decided
obey him, I daringly took the first steps. Every beginning isn’t easy, and I
knew that there would be big challenges and obstacles. But I trusted in God. He
has been faithful and he has backed me up. A cycle exists that affects many
Christians and myself included. It consists of the following: God helps you get
out of a certain situation, then later new difficulties come, we have the
tendency to worry again, and then we declare that God will resolve the
situation. It is good to declare that God will resolve it. He will do it, you
are right. The problem is that in many things, one way or another, the new
difficulty filters into and invades our thoughts and it steals our inner peace.
It converts itself into a central theme that will be present in our minds. You
ask yourself: How will God resolve it? When will He resolve it? What do I do
while I wait? How many more difficulties will I have to experience? I remember
that to comfort myself, I recited Psalm
34:19 “The righteous
person faces many troubles, but the Lord comes to the rescue
each time.” But the afflictions continue to be present in my mind. I ask
myself “WHAT DO I DO?!”
Working these last few days as a bricklayer assistant in
the construction, I realized that although I had a vision of what I wanted to
build, my hands weren’t going to be the ones that would do the most complicated
work. The bricklayer’s hands would be the ones to do that part. I should trust
in him. The ground presented some challenges for the construction, but that too,
the bricklayer overcame, because while I’m not an expert in the material, he
is. I felt that God was talking to me through my work, telling me: “Let me be
the bricklayer in your life, which is my work, trust in me. Don’t confuse your
role, I am the one in charge of the work. You are my helper, which means that
you can’t do what I will do. It may seem impossible, but I will make it possible.
I will resolve your biggest worries. We form a team.” My attitude has changed,
before, I would say: “I will do this, this way, maybe this is what you want”, or
“I will do it this way, maybe this will be the way out.” Now I simply say, “This
is what I can do, God you do the rest.”
God is the missing piece to our puzzle.
Psalm 55:22 Cast
your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will
never let the righteous be shaken.
