Reach for Jesus.

You ever feel like things aren't getting better? Feel like there's no hope insight? I know there has been many times in my life where I would say I didn't completely feel like there was no hope but I did feel like giving up because things weren't moving as fast or the way I wanted them to. So what do we do in times like this? Should we just sit around and remind ourselves of the promises of the Lord or should we do something about them? First I want to say that we do need to be reminded of the promises that God has set before us but I also believe that instead of just sitting there and thinking about them, we need to walk in faith and take action. In Matthew 9 there is a story of a women who was bleeding for 12years. Imagine the lack of hope this women had. I know if things don't happen my way within a month then I start to worry and I can tell my faith starts to decrease. I'm sure that the thought of never being healed crossed her mind many times. What she does next is what I believe we need to do when we find ourselves in situations that just seem impossible. She goes to the one who is the only person who could help her, Jesus!
I know that we see how her faith was awesome but I'm not sure we really understand how awesome her faith was. We might say to ourselves that of course she would go to Jesus, who wouldn't? Remember this, she didn't know Jesus like we do. We have the luxury of knowing who Jesus is by all the accounts in the Bible. We know that He is the Messiah and that He died and rose again. She didn't. This lady might of heard word about Jesus but there's no way she knew what we do, she had no idea of what He would do on the cross. Even though she didn't fully understand who He was she still said "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well" (Matt. 9:21) This lady recognized that there was something special about this man and she put all her hope and faith that Jesus would heal her and He did. After reading this I got gut checked. I know Jesus, I love Jesus, and I have the luxury to read about Him and study Him but yet my faith lacks in troubled times. I know it's hard to have such great faith when things suck all around you but that's still not an excuse. I don't want to bum anyone out but maybe we just need to ask ourselves how great is our faith? Do we really trust in the Lord in our what we call impossible times and are we going to have the faith to persevere? No matter what you are going through Jesus is there to help, heal, and get you through these rough spots in our lives. All we need to do is trust in Him and let Him do all the hard work.
So my prayer for us today is that God would give us strength and faith for us to let Him be Him. I pray that we would cast all our cares on Him and that He would restore any lack of trust that we might be having. I pray for help in our lacks of faiths.