You will Go the Deepest with God When the Drought Comes

We all want that easy, comfortable, safe, secure life. In fact, we pray about it often. But is that what God wants for you? Is that His high priority for your life?

    No one ever said that they learned their deepest lessons of life, or had their sweetest encounters with God, on the sunny days. People go deep with God when the drought comes. That is the way God designed it.
    Christ aims to be magnified in life most clearly by the way we experience him in our losses. Paul is our example: “We were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead” (2 Corinthians 1:8-9).
    The design of Paul’s suffering was to make radically clear for his own soul, and for ours, that God and God alone is the only treasure who lasts. When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.
     …If we can learn to enjoy Christ and magnify Him even in the midst of pain and suffering, we show the world where our true love lies.
     …Jesus’ beauty shines most brightly when He is treasured above wealth, above health, and above life itself.
–John Piper

Though this may not be what we want to hear, I think it is right on target. The valleys of life show us who we can trust, and when we come out of the valley after holding God’s hand through it, we find that He is the One most worthy of all our trust. He is the One who is ever faithful to His promises to always be with us. I don’t know what you are struggling with today, but I know that if you will hold on to Jesus, you will not be disappointed. You will discover that even if you have no safety, security, or comfort other than Him… He is enough!