Stop Running

Walls are built to protect ourselves in doubt. God tears down those walls to alleviate our pain and build our faith. God has a plan for each of us as hard to believe as that may be. I know I’ve run away from God in the past not understanding that all He wanted to do was help me. It’s much easier to stay than walk away, but we misunderstand this sometimes because we don’t see God for who He is. And that’s my testimony today, God is a wonderful being who wants to walk with us to reveal His purpose in our lives. God is real and so are His promises. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,” (Jer. 29:11). It’s interesting that God foreknew that some of us would view His help as harm. It really isn’t harm at all. He’s not intent on making preachers out of all of us, but He does want us to keep a mind and heart on His word, because it brings peace.

“When God reveals Himself and calls him, man cannot fully respond to the divine love by his own powers. He must hope that God will give him the capacity to love Him in return and to act in conformity with the commandments of charity. Hope is the confident expectation of divine blessing and the beatific vision of God; it is also the fear of offending God's love and of incurring punishment,” (CCC 2090).

We live in hope that He’ll hear us and answer our prayer - a hope that is not our own but a gift. Hope brings us to a place of prayer and connection with God. And it is in this hope that we find the being that so lovingly responds to our plea. The Creator of heaven and earth has heard our prayer and answers according to His will which is always good. That’s another thing about God, once you believe that His will is best all else falls into place. God’s will is present at all times and is where God wants us to be. In Christ we find the answer to anything that matters. Christ is what calls us forth toward His Father’s will.

“By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God. With his whole being man gives his assent to God the revealer. Sacred Scripture calls this human response to God, the author of revelation, "the obedience of faith" (CCC 143).

And it is this faith that is also a gift and when we understand that all comes from God that we finally begin to pray in His will according to His good judgement. God has a will for our life that one can only imagine. It is in this faith and hope that we find the answer to all that brings angst and worry. Stop running - have faith in God, hope for his will and pray.

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." Colossians 1:9-14