The God Who Fights For Me

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Thank you. Janice Austin Bates

Do you ever feel like you are all alone in this world? When you are really down does anyone have your back?

If you are like me, when your life seems to be falling apart, it feels like no one cares. In fact, sometimes you would swear that no one even realizes you are in trouble.

That is such a lonesome feeling.

My father was a pastor. When I was eighteen years old the people in our church decided we had been there long enough. They thought they needed a new pastor so they asked us to leave. I had grown up in that church. The adults were like aunts and uncles to me, and the youth were like siblings. I was devastated.

To make things worse, the new church we went to had a youth group who weren’t very nice. When they found out we were coming there some of the youth decided they did not want another teenage girl in the church, so they pressured all of the youth group to shun me the minute I walked in the door. It took two years before I found out why they did this.

One day I said the people in my home church didn’t want me and the people in the new church didn’t want me. However the people in the world were nice to me so I said I would go where I was wanted. Sadly, I walked away from God for ten years.

When God finally brought me back it still took another thirty five years to get over the pain and feeling of abandonment. Every time I thought about having to leave my home church I would cry so hard I couldn’t even talk.

One day I was alone and thinking about relationships in my life that had parted ways and I was talking about them (to myself). I was talking out loud and said, “When Danny and I went our separate ways, my life went on without him. When John and I went out separate ways, my life went on without him. When Santi and I went our separate ways, my life went on without him.” Then I heard myself say, “When the church and I went our separate ways, my life went on without me.” It finally hit me why I had never gotten over the pain. My life had gone on as I had always known it, but I was no longer allowed to be in it.

Even though I understood the pain better than I ever had before, the terrible pain and feeling of abandonment continued for about another ten years.

One Sunday we were singing a song in my church when the words hit me right between the eyes. The words were, “You  never forsook me.” God spoke to me and told me He had never forsaken me. I had forsaken Him. He said He had always been there, but I had run off and left Him. As those words sank in the pain lifted. I no longer felt abandoned.

I suddenly realized I had allowed the actions of people to cause me to run from the one who loved me most. Essentially I had cut off my nose to spite my face.

This morning the preacher told us that when we have a problem, Satan wants us to take quick action to fix it se we will just mess it up. God, on the other hand, wants us to leave the problem to Him so He can really fix it.

If I had left the problem in His hands He would have worked it all out. I panicked and tried to fix the problem myself. In doing so, I made it worse and my life was messed up for years.

The Bible teaches that David did not brood over his problems. Neither did he pity himself. He simply gave his problems, many of his own making, to God and let Him fix them.

God is the one who is always fighting for us, and God never loses a fight. Why do so many of us try to fight our own battles when our fighting skills are so limited?

The Bible says His eye is on the sparrow, so why don’t we trust Him? The sparrows do.

In boxing, men battle to see who can be the heavy weight champion of the world, and people are in awe of them.

We need to understand the heavy weight champion of the universe is our Heavenly Father, and He is always fighting for us.

So relax, give everything to Him and rest assured that we are in good hands with Almighty God.

Think about it.