Have you ever had a trial or tribulation you just don’t quite understand? You pray, cry, and pray even more, yet the more you find yourself in the sinking sand of despair. You’re not alone. Yes, you read it correctly… YOU ARE NOT ALONE! God allows for trials or tribulations to work us and usher us into a greater dependence in Him and Him only.

I hear people from day-day-to make statements about how “they did or own” certain things on their own as if they are self-made successes. Everything each of us has ever owned or possessed in this life came from God. You may have lost the possession, relationship, or thing along the way for whatever reason, but He gave it to you to be a good steward over, not to worship it’s existence and being.

When we’re not fulfilling stewardship over what God’s given us, rest assure you’ll find He’ll quickly separate you from that matter! The GOOD NEWS: God loves each of us so much that He has to save many of us from our very own destruction by allowing for trials and tribulations to bring us back into full relationship with Him. He misses each of us dearly when we make the decision to worship elsewhere, rather things beyond Him.

Let 2 Corinthians 10:17-18 serve as a reminder of His love and more importantly, a reminder of where our strength and dependence lies: in Him and only Him, not other people or things!