There Is One

"If it seems FUTILE to you, then God is not in it."

NOTHING IS FUTILE. That is a lie of darkness, of sin. Not necessarily sin you’ve done but the effects of sin on this earth. NOTHING GOD DOES IS FUTILE. Nothing we come up against is futile in His eyes. Futility is what causes people to give up. I’ve been there where I felt trapped by helplessness. I stared truth in the face and couldn’t see it. My life seemed hopeless. And I learned through what I felt in that moment to listen to God and His Word and not to what my mind, my head was saying.

There are moments when we must ignore our feelings, no matter how crazy they are. No matter how insulting they seem to God or how much they scream to agree with the devil. I will explain. One, God is not insulted by your outbursts, your pain. Settle that first. Whatever has come out or threatens to come out, He can take it, as modern language would say. My mother would say He has the broader shoulders. The facts are that He has heard it all. No, really. Every outburst, all cursing, every invective. Now, I’m NOT encouraging you to do those, but do not let sin condemn you or trap you. God is love. He is forgiveness. He understands why you feel that way, knows what you’ve endured, and His heart is your peace and rescue.

“Peace is my bequest to you, and the peace I will give you is mine to give; I do not give peace as the world gives it.” (John 14:17, Knox)

Two, He is forgiveness, and asking is easy, and His forgiveness is full and complete every time. Don’t fear asking. Don’t fear being forgiven. Don’t fear what you are feeling but learn to lean on Him. Through His Word. Speak the Scriptures which uplift your heart. Lean on Him through worship. It took me a while to realize worship is more than our praising His goodness. We should seek to praise from our deepest heart. But worship is as much Him working in us. We call upon Him, we remember His holiness and His care for us, we turn our gazes to the work He’s done on the cross and in the Resurrection, and His Presence, which is the Holy Spirit, floods us and surrounds us, healing those things which torment our minds. When I learned He is always with me to love me and bring me peace, then those things, which my wrong thinking kept bringing up, grew smaller and smaller until they weren’t anymore. FUTILITY being one of the biggest.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is FUTILE in Him. This is always WRONG THINKING. His heart for us is peace, for every single day to be peaceful, for our finances to be peaceful, for our health to be peaceful, for our relationships to be peaceful. Until the last moment of our life when we are truly through here on earth, and that last breath is peaceful. There is never supposed to be any struggle to survive, to overcome pain and mental torment, to walk forward. Implant it in your head: If it seems FUTILE to you, then God is not in it. And stop making space for something to go wrong just in case it does. STOP. Be prepared for everything you do to be success, and for the end result to be blessed beyond your ability to think that big. Throw out fear of failure.

I finally stepped up higher into what God wanted for me when I stared darkness in the face and no longer cared what it had to say. I didn’t plan for it anymore. I completely overlooked it. It no longer mattered how crazy God’s promise to me seemed, it came from God, and I would be happy from then on. I refused to be sad or afraid any longer. It was as if darkness was completely baffled by my behavior. I said to myself, “I’d rather be happy and talk to God like this than be sad and afraid over what feels FUTILE.” Even if the entire planet earth thought I was nuts, God loved me beyond words, so who cares.

But I only got to that point by not looking back. By no longer giving the devil a place (Ephesians 4:27). Those are the words of the Scripture. Though the devil is NOT speaking in men’s ears, he is figurative of the battle in our mind. The battle in our mind is THE ONLY battle we fight. The devil himself and sin and the effects of sin, including sickness and death, are de-feeted. The physical body will die until God remakes the earth, but because the Spirit of God lives in our heart, because Jesus is in our heart, our spirit man, the real you, will live forever.

All I am, from here on, belongs to Jesus, so I know anything that isn’t joy and peace in believing, in living, isn’t from Him, and though I may feel it, I don’t accept it. Though I may not see the way out of what feels FUTILE, I know there is one, and He will show it to me. In that moment, when I choose to keep walking in spite of what I don’t know, happy to be with Him, in love with Him, I now fully believe. My trust is complete, and I can enjoy every step I take into freedom.

“By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, NOT KNOWING WHITHER HE WENT.” (Hebrews 11:8)

“Noah was warned by God about things THAT HE COULD NOT YET SEE. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.” (Hebrews 11:7 ERV)

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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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