Does life go smoothly for you? are you the type of person that sails through work and play without a single thing going wrong? Er.. bet your not!!! I know in heaven nothing goes wrong, but down here on planet EARTH plenty goes wrong...and if your even slightly like me, thats every day.
Ok, so sometimes its just stupid simple stuff, like famed international coffee shop with super coffee making masters, who even after two or three goes cant seem to master the regular old latte, without making it taste like you've signed up for a course in swallowing acrid poison. Or the annoying traffic trailing down the road at 30 in a 60 zone, created by, darling old Lady who cant drive, with all the time in the world, dawdling along, whilst you've got a vital reason to be in town fast...
Other times though, its stuff that isn't easy to brush off and just isn't funny, that leaves you with the feeling that God just doesn't get what life is like down here..he doesn't ever seem to try to give you a break on life. You pray for grace, strength, patience all the right stuff to cope, but bottom line... your just not feeling it...right!!!!
You have listened to the latest prosperity teaching, positivity statements, healing ministries, faith teachers and, if your honest, are still not convinced that Gods on your side at all.
Questions DO come into our heads when things go wrong, when bad stuff happens for whatever the reasons, most of us quake in our boots, and go reaching for doubt and uncertainty, thats because we ARE only human, we ARE weak, and we DO need at times to feel comforted. This doesn't faze God at all, he deliberately left a comforter with us, the Holy Spirit, so that, if we learn how to connect with him, we don't need to feel so alone in our struggles. The New Testament gives tons of examples of the Apostles interacting with this same Holy Spirit, telling of how they went through many trials and tribulations, in the spreading of the Gospel, being continually in need of strength and comfort from him, so that they could achieve what would be impossible without him.
Wisdom says then, get in sync with the Holy Spirit, so that when trouble strikes your ready, so that in whatever situation you and I find ourselves, be it everyday nuisances, or life challenging circumstances, we will be able to say, Greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world, We are more than conquerers, we will fight. No matter what it takes we will not be driven by uncertainty, but by Faith in Christ Jesus, to a victorious, overcoming life.