Do you feel like you have a better way and better timing than what God is allowing right now? Can you trust God even when you do not understand God? There will be times when God’s plan does not make sense to you. Faith does not require that you and I understand everything that God is doing. Faith requires that you and I trust the One who does understand everything that is He is doing!
There are things that teachers will carry that students, parents, and even other teachers may not know. Teachers deal with our community’s mental health crisis, underage drinking, illegal drug use, pornography, and broken homes regularly. The weight of these things can be heavy. You can feel, at times, completely alone, but you are not alone!
There are times when life feels like a storm. We may face pressures that make us wonder if it is worth continuing to serve, trust, and obey God. But faithfulness is not determined by how calm the circumstances are around us. Faithfulness is a deliberate choice to keep doing what God has called us to do regardless of the circumstances. We must make the deliberate choice to remain faithful to God.
After a person has run ahead of God, and made a mess, they can become either very bitter or very ready to listen. 13 years have passed since Genesis 16:18. Abram is now 99 years old, Ishmael is 13 years old, Sarai is 89, and God chooses to reaffirm his promises. Notice that the promises of God all depend heavily on God’s faithfulness, not on Abram’s performance.
Abram was a man of faith, but he also struggled with fear from time to time. He had just finished a war with 4 powerful eastern kings. Will those kings come after him for revenge? Has he just made some very powerful enemies? Did he just do a foolish thing in refusing more wealth? Look here at God's solution to Abram's struggles with fear.
