Crisis-A crucial turning point in the progress of an affair or series
of events; a critical moment.
Have you ever experienced a crisis? A moment when you did not know what to
do? Let me just say that there is a
crisis in my home when the chocolate jar is empty! But let’s go deeper. As a minister’s wife, have you ever had a
crisis of belief? Yes, it is a shameful
thing to admit because we “ministers’ wives” have it “all together.” Hardly!
Just recently I was in route to my parent’s home to gather
any item I might want to keep before we held an estate sale. On the way there, I received a text message
stating that my oldest son was at the ER with a gall bladder attack. Now, only a week earlier my dad had passed
away and now my son falls ill.
Seriously! I began to just cry
out to God. I was so tired and mentally
drained. Two and half years of dealing
with sickness, deaths, moves, and many more changes had left me numb. I ranted at God. I asked Him if He really cared or was even
there. Did He know what I had and was
experiencing? As I completed my rant, I
demanded God that if He was really there, He needed to show me a sign. Yes, I felt guilty for demanding and I was
heartbroken that I even was questioning Him.
However sisters, I was having a crisis of belief.
No sooner had I spoke the words, I topped a hill and was
stunned. Straight ahead over a pasture,
God had painted a rainbow against the approaching storm clouds. How appropriate. Here I was again with another life storm
brewing and God was going before me. In
my crisis of belief God gave me the sign of a promise-the rainbow- that He is
always there.
Yes dear sisters, ministers’ wives are allowed to have a
crisis of belief. We are humans and in
our fragile lives there will be difficulties, trials, and tribulations. Sometimes it is perfectly okay to ask God to
do something big so you can have assurance that He is with you in the midst of
difficult times.
So sisters, if you have had a crisis of belief, I would love
for you to share how God assured you during that time.
1 comment:
Had a similar experience last Tuesday coming back from meetings in Nashville! I was "mulling over" all I had heard that day and thinking about several family & friends in difficult situations. Suddenly a rainbow appeared and for the next hour or so as I drove just behind the rain, there was a rainbow and sometimes double rainbows in the sky. Great sign of "God's got this"!!
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