Fall Apart - Josh Wilson

It’s easy to give God thanks and praise when everything in life is going just perfect, falling right into place. But what happens when things start to fall apart, one thing after another? Where does our words of praise and thanks go then, when our focus is on everything that's going wrong?

I think first we have to search deep in our hearts, because that’s what God is doing anyway. How are we viewing God through it all?

Matthew 5:8 says, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.” Not for what God can do for us, but what we can do for Him. To be set apart for His use, not look to God like He is Santa Clause. That we could give Him a list of all our wants and needs, and as long as everything is going right than He is a good God. That is so wrong, and we have to come to the end of that way of thinking, and God will help us do just that.

I believe if we want to even get a glimpse of God, and even try to understand Him and the things that are happening, it starts in the heart. 1 Chronicles 28:9, “for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought.”

We were created to live a life pleasing to God. If we think anything different He will help us come to the end of this way of thinking. He starts very gently, and then it starts to feel like, little by little everything is falling apart.

Some people come to know God early in life, yet others, (like me) are spinning a lot longer than we would have liked to on His potter’s wheel. Isaiah 64:8, “Yet You Lord are our Father. We are the clay, You are the potter; we are the work of Your hand.” We pray for the pain to pass, but He sees more work needs to be done to purify our hearts.

So how can we come to the end of ourselves and somehow still have all we need? I believe when our way of thinking starts to change, and we come to realize that joy is not based on material things, people, circumstance, or life events, but that true joy is in the “One” who never changes when everything else does.

Yes, it will feel like your whole world is caving in, and everything is falling apart, but this is how it starts, because God wants us to feel Him more than we ever did before.

May you feel His peace in troubled times, because God is good all the time.

Kim