How God Uses Your Struggles with People to Help You to Know Him: Romans 8:38-39
Have you found yourself focusing more on your problems than the God over your trial? You’re not alone! We all have moments where we need reminders that God is greater than our struggle. That’s why I wrote a free devotional, How to Find the Purpose in Your Pain, to help you to find the purpose in making it out of your current trauma! The God you serve is greater than what you’re going through. I believe that reading my testimony of overcoing multiple traumas and failures will be a reminder of His love for you and will encourage you that you can get through it, too! Join other women as we spend 7 days of consistent quiet time with God with this free devotional:
Romans 8: 38-39 “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord” (ESV).
How can you know that your struggles won’t separate you from God’s love unless you endure them?
…And how can you endure those struggles unless you learn to lean on Him for strength when you are weak?
Have you ever found yourself in an extremely traumatic situation? Has the hurt from someone in your past ever grieved you so much that you reached the point of exhaustion?
The truth is that all of us have encountered painful “people moments” in our lives.
I’ve dealt with “people hurt” and “God hurt.”
“People hurt” is when you blame people for the wounds you didn’t ask for.
“God hurt” is when you can’t understand why He allowed that pain in your life, or you blame Him for your battle scars.
Both “people hurt” and “God hurt” are equally stressful. Each can create wounds so deep that you no longer want God or anything to do with His people. Consequently, many who go through traumatic situations end up isolating themselves.
Unfortunately, isolation is the worst decision during a season like this because you need Christ-centered community to help you dig out of your pit. Of course, community is strongest when it’s structured within a church and accompanied by mental health therapy.
But what happens when it feels like the community you leaned on for support becomes the very reason you begin to question God’s love for you?
Let’s look at what David said about God’s love when He was faced with “people struggles” beyond his capacity:
“Show Your marvelous lovingkindness by Your right hand,
O You who save those who trust in You
From those who rise up against them.” (Psalm 17: 7, NKJV)
Whether your wound is from divorce, abuse, a parent, a relationship, a church, or someone you thought was a friend, the reality is that “people wounds” are an inevitable part of our Christian life.
Being a Christian doesn’t change the fact that you will go through issues with people. It simply changes your perspective on those issues.
However, the Christian life does get better with maturity! As you mature in Christ, you’ll gain wisdom that allows you to avoid certain relationships that bring self-inflicted stress and harm!
The good news is that Psalm 17: 7 tells us that God promises to save us from those who rise against us as long as we trust in Him. This verse also encourages us by letting us know that our pain, persecution, and injustice will always have an end date of victory, so long as our faith remains intact with the Lord. This is promised in Psalm 34:19 when God tells us:
“Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
But the Lord delivers him out of them all” (NKJV).
There’s a temptation for many believers to misunderstand God because of the unfortunate circumstances they have with the people who hurt them.
We often look at our past hurts and current pains and think that gives us reason to assume that God doesn’t care. Consequently, we leave God out of frustration or fear of getting hurt again.
The truth is that in our most painful moments, Jesus wants us to draw closer to Him, not further away.
When we use our painful moments as tools of love in our relationships with God, we find ourselves drawing closer to God in the midst of our pain. Instead of running away from God when we are hurt, we can utilize our pain as a means to draw closer to Jesus.
We learn that our weakness causes us to lean on Him for strength.
Our pain causes us to draw closer to Him for hope
…and our wounds cause us to look to Him as Our Healer.
So, if you’re still wondering how God uses your “people struggles” to help you know Him, let me go back to my original question:
How can you know that your struggles won’t separate you from God’s love unless you endure them?
…And how can you endure those struggles unless you learn to lean on Him for strength when you are weak?
Hey sis,
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