God Is Working

I would like to tell y'all about how God has been working in my life lately... God has been teaching me allot about Grace but even more about His Faithfulness! Everyday is a struggle for me... I feel like Romans 7:15-20... I desire to please God with my whole heart... With all of my actions, thoughts, and activities... Yet I constantly fall... I sometimes feel like I'm a failure, like I'm incompetent... And then God assures me that I'm right... Bc with out Him I'm hopeless! With out His guidance I'm like a blind man in a corn field! And with out His Grace I have no hope... I was rocked at church Sunday bc of this... Bc I desire to please Him yet I miss it so often... And I hate it bc He is the love of my life and bc I love Him I want to obey Him! And Sunday night I was talking with a friend and I asked him if God will eventually just give up on me and all He told me was "Look back through the bible." And as I look through it I see others who struggled also... David for example is called a man after God's own heart... He sleep with this woman and then killed her husband... And that is just striking the surface! You see it's not by my actions or my works that I'm saved! There is nothing that I can do to earn Salvation... It's bc of God's Grace, which is Jesus that I'm saved! He has offered Himself as the sacrifice so that I can be looked at as righteous by God Almighty! This is Beautiful! And second He has been really teaching me about His Faithfulness! I was talking with a friend today about what God has been doing in each others lives and he told me that God has been so good and that he is so blessed and what not and when he was finished I asked him "What if you lost everything tomorrow? The wife, kid, job, house, everything but that clothes; then how good would God be?" And at first he looked at me as if I was crazy (as I also would have). Don't X out yet there is a really good point to this! I have not lost everything by any means, but right now in my life I'm loosing more then I ever have before. And for the most part it has to do with money. I have seen my bank account dwindle down day by day and it stinks yeah but it's not everything. Now when I asked my buddy this question I also said all I'm saying here... Now the point I'm trying to make with this is that 'God's Faithfulness does not rest on what He does for me today, tomorrow, or yesterday! It rest's on Calvary' -Brad Bird... The point is that God is the same Faithful God weather I live in a mansion or a box! Nothing can hinder who He is! I have always said that I understand that but I don't think I ever fully have until I actually have had to go through a tough time... We can get in trouble when we only look at God as good when we have everything and when we don't really have to depend on Him! Bc there will come a time of trouble and if we don't know Him for who He truly is we will crumble... I have seen it happen to countless people and it breaks my heart! Through my time of trouble I have been able to give more $ and more of myself to God then ever before! I have less but I feel so much better! If He does provide more Praise Jesus! If He doesn't Praise Jesus! Don't give up! Be Encouraged! Let's continue to fight! We have Hope in Jesus! Don't place your dependency on money or others... Place it in God alone! He is Faithful! Seek to Encourage someone tomorrow! Your words can go along way! God Bless!