The No’s

In life we all hope for the best. We all hope and pray for our needs and wants to be met. We work hard to get what we want. We often sacrifice our needs and sometimes people to try to get what we want, that thing that will make us happy.

I know that me, in my life I have made great sacrifices for the things I want. No matter what if I want it bad enough I will give up everything to get it. I will lose friends alienate family and stop at nothing to get what I think will make me “happy”. The problem is rarely if ever does it make me happy. It often causes a great deal more heartache than I had anticipated. The desire to get what you want at all cost often doesn’t take into account his plan.

In our lives we are given great blessings. We are given people, relationships, opportunities for our faith to grow and our light to shine. We are also given difficult times, times of sorrow, times of sadness, and times where we don’t get what we want or what we feel we deserve. During these times we feel like our prayers are not being answered, our needs are not being met, and like God has forsaken us.

What we don’t understand is that God not only uses our good times for his glory, he uses the No’s to allow us to grow. There will be a time in your life when God will shut a door that you can’t open. We as people who want all of our wants met can’t see that that door as beautiful as it is on the other side isn’t meant to be gone through by us. There are a great many things in this world that we hope to get, if we do it without struggle without hardship, then who’s to say we will be strong enough to handle it when it comes. There are things in this life we are not supposed to have. We will have to go through the No’s to grow into the person we are supposed to be. God will use the No’s to teach us patience, humility, and strength.

We will be much happier once we realize that God gives us the No’s to help us grow and not to prevent us from being happy. God wants us to look to him through the yes and through the no. God loves you and so do I.