Do You Ever Fuss At God?

Good Morning Blog Friends~
I have been so bad about blogging lately. The purpose of my blog has always been to point others to my Lord and Saviour with all the little mundane issues of life thrown in for good measure. I have just been dry lately~ like a juice box sucked in with no air left inside. I think all the life has been sucked right out of me. Do you ever feel like that?

I heard a message this morning and the teacher said sometimes God test His people to see if they are what they say they are. You know like when you go buy a new sofa and you sit on it and try it out. Sometimes it is easy when hard times come one at a time~ well not easy~ but do-able. Yet~ when  trials and tests come right after another you can't do anything but realize that without God you are nothing. I am confessing~ I am nothing without God.


The new school supplies have hit the isles~ my smarty pants husband has gone back full force getting a new school year ready~ but I am not ready for this school year. Last year the year started with the sudden death of my father~ led by one trial after another. I finished up the school year with the wedding of my baby girl. Don't get me wrong~ we love Jacob but I grieved so hard when another daughter moved clear across the country.  I have spent all summer ~ stay-cationing and trying to restore myself in God's Word. BUT ~ I am confessing I am still not ready to gear up for another year. Sigh**** But ready or not here it comes.

This school year is starting with the news our new son-in-love will be deploying to war.  This momma feels a little sucker punched. Please add him to your prayer list~ as well as all our men and women that are serving our country. Funny how it gets more personal when it is our loved one that is  heading to war. Somehow we forget that every person fighting is someones' loved one. Hannah has decided to come home until he returns next summer.

The basement is almost finished ~ so Hannah will have her own little apartment. We are happy she has decided to return home. We already have plans to head to the Amish bulk store to stock up for Jacob's monthly care packages.

Do you ever fuss at God? Well mine is more like grumbling maybe.  Like~ asking why? Or maybe it goes more like this~ "God you said you will never place more on me than I can handle~ are you sure you are paying attention? Because this looks like more than I can handle."

 Much like Mary and Martha did when they fussed at God for not being soon enough to heal Lazarus~ I fuss too. Healing does begin when we realize God does receive our fussing.

How did Jesus respond to Mary and Martha venting their emotional heartbreak?  He did not get angry with them or punish them~ He cried with them. You see our God is touched with our humanness. When we walk that cemetery ground~ He walks with us. He cries with us. There was no judgement only tears of empathy. When we feel like life is more than we can handle~ He carries us. When our strength is all gone ~ He makes our feet as hinds' feet. When we are the weakest ~ He makes us strong! We simply have to turn it all over to Him.