The
Karate Kid (Part 2)
What Daniel believed to be a waste of his time, and
thought that Mr. Miyagi was using him for his own selfish purpose was in
reality TRAINING for his karate tournament.
Mr. Miyagi had Daniel practicing karate moves that he needed to learn
for his tournament, he had him strengthening the muscles he would need to use,
so that when he fought during the tournament he wouldn’t be taken down so
easily. That is exactly how God works in
our lives. God will put you in places under
circumstances that you find difficult, doing things that you feel are not meant
for you to do. When you are in this predicament, you then start to questions
God, you start to wonder what is your purpose, are you really in the will of
God, you get a deep uncomfortable feeling and at times even doubt
yourself. However, God is DOPE, AMAZING
and AWESOME and we don’t have to fret, and we don’t have to figure it out
because God will do all of that and more for us.
God will make it all come together for our good.
In Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a
future and a hope.
God has a plan for us and His plans will ALWAYS
prevail over our own plans. We all know
that if God just told us what to do we are so hard headed that we are not going
to do it. Sometimes God has to send us
through the maze so that we have to walk all the way to the middle and by
putting you in these situations he accomplishes His will for your life. I saw a video of young woman who writes
blogs, and she also does makeup and some other stuff and she mentioned that she
had a job where she had to write a lot.
I don’t remember what exactly she had to write but she had to do a huge
amount of writing daily. She asked God
one day “what is this about God?” and a couple of months later she started to
write her own book. God placed her in
that position to prepare her writing skills so that she can share her story
with the world. God knew that was the
only way that she would polish up her skills.
God knows that there are many times when He will have to just put us in
a situation because we will not willingly do something.
God will also place certain people in our lives
because they will be used to sand us down and make us better for His kingdom. I have worked with some very difficult people
and been in many awkward situations but all of those situations were
orchestrated by God to make me a more patient and understanding person. He wanted to teach me that He needs to be
glorified in all situations.
In the book of Proverbs 3:5-6 is states; Trust in the
Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, In all your
ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths.
This passage right here tells us we need to trust God
no matter how things look or feel to us.
Although we might think we know what we need WE DON’T! God created us for a purpose and part of
surrendering to God is that He is going to mold us into the people that He had
in mind when He knit us in our mother’s womb.
We all want to do our “thing” and we want to make our own plans about
how our life is going to be and God has to use other methods to get us to do
what He wants us to do. Sometimes the
methods seem harsh to us, but the outcomes are great.
I want to encourage you all and in encouraging you I
am also encouraging myself. There isn’t
a scripture in the Bible, in any of the books, where it states that we have to
WORRY about things, or STRESS over things, or FIGURE things out on our own.
However, I have read over and over that we should
TRUST God. It doesn’t matter how things
look, or how they feel, we need to trust God with all. God knows what we need, He knows what we are
capable of, He knows how He is going to accomplish His plans for us. He KNOWS and we have to TRUST that He
knows. If we feel doubtful, we need to
turn those doubts to Jesus and seek our answers from Him and when the time is
right He will reveal the information that we need to know, or rather what we
want to know. So the next time that you
are placed in a situation that you don’t understand, that you feel is not
relevant to your life, ask God (turn to God) to seek the answers that you have
in your mind. And trust that although
that particular situation is not relevant to you now, at a specific time in
your life it will make complete sense as to why it happened, or why you went
through the experience with the person.
