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Believe When We Don't Feel Like It 

Kasey Ewing
I can tell it has been another bad day by the way he walks in the door, his shoulders slightly slumped and the grin that used to welcome me is turned upside down. He pretends to smile for me and the kids but it never fully reaches his eyes. He unloads all his stuff onto the dresser but the weight of years of disappointments rest heavily on his shoulders.
 
I watch him, wondering how to help ease his irritation. I want to offer words of encouragement but they stick in my throat, not knowing how to dislodge his hurt. When I finally open my mouth, my suggestions sound canned and only increases the hurt. He gently responds to me,
"I know the correct answers but I am just mad." His wounds masks themselves as anger but deep into his green eyes you see the hurt.  
 
From the outside, few would know his struggles and search for significance. One must look closely to see that the monotony of life has left him bored and unfulfilled. He has a wife and two kids, a ministry, talent, and love for people but comes home each night tired and angry. Most days, I go one way and he goes the other and we occasionally cross paths to offer a greeting and then we fall into bed at night to get up and do it again. I wonder how many men around have reached a mid point and are left wondering if this is all there is to life? I wonder how many wives stand by them helplessly questioning how to help.

 We are told and believe that serving the Lord would bring the greatest fulfillment, while staking our claim that doing God's will would be the best for us. However, many days His will isn't the easiest. Sometimes, it is just down right painful.
 The dictionary tells us that belief is a "confidence in Just Believe the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof." In this season of our lives, when anger and disappointment cloud the picture of God's best for our life, we must choose to believe. To believe when we don't feel like it. To trust when we are shaking. To hope when it seems hopeless. To stand on the promise that "our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (NIV)

Have you  or are you living in a time of believing when you didn't want to believe?  Have you had your trust shaken?  How has choosing to believe brought you through?  Meet us in the forums or the devotionals

Kasey Ewing serves alongside of her husband Brad at FBC, Bossier City, Louisiana where Brad serves as worship pastor.


 
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Living Your Life.....

 

   Cleaning out my closet today I thought, "I cannot believe I used to FIT into these TINY sized clothes!" After having two children...well, you know the rest of that sentence! And I'm sorry to say, I just felt disgusted with myself. Purging my closet today made me feel really good and it gave me the time to think. Purging my cluttered mind made me feel even better. As a pastor's wife, my mind is sometimes (okay ALL of the time!) on maximum overdrive and overload! Sometimes, I am so busy being the pastor's wife, I forget I am first and foremost the King's daughter.
   
 "Living Your Life as a Beautiful Offering" by Angela Thomas is a Bible study based on the Sermon on the Mount. Angela uses this study to call women to a more passionate walk in Christ. Something she said in the introduction video of the study really struck a chord with me: "The God who knows me fully, loves me still." Ahhhhhhh! How reefreshing is that! The God who REALLY Angela Thomas book knows me, who REALLY, REALLY knows me... loves me still. And better yet, wants to use me to further his Kingdom. Our lives, "broken, tarnished, ragged, or torn can still become a beautiful offering." This study can be done as an individual study or with a group. There are six weeks of five day studies with topics such as, A Beautiful Offering, The Cup of Your Soul, You Belong to Heaven,and Keeping a Secret Life. There are also six video sessions that go along with each week's topic. What better offering can we give our sweet Father than the gift of our life?
     I am so grateful that there are studies like this that help me organize my cluttered mind. A woman loves an organized closet. One that she can walk in and magically see that outfit that will make her feel beautiful for the day. But to have a closet like that, she has to purge out the clutter that hides the magical wardrobe. Our Father loves our mind to be fresh and focused and de-cluttered. So that when He speaks, we get the message loud and clear. To have a mind like that , we have to purge the clutter that gets in the Way of His voice. When we do this, our lives can become a beautiful offering as we walk in step with the Father. Angela Thomas tells it like it is! And I choose to believe with her that "The King is enthralled with your beauty."

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