Insurmountable...

Every now and then doesn't it seem like life just keeps pitching you fast balls?  No matter what you do to get ahead in the game, the game gets a little overwhelming?

Once you finally washed all the dishes, you happen to notice the mount and mount of laundry waiting for you. 

You get one kid to t-ball only to realized the other one has dance or ballet across town at the same time.

I have been extremely busy this past few years with working, school and family and every now and then I just get so overwhelmed... It all feels Insurmountable!  But is it really?

Is anything really too great to overcome?  I have read countless stories of people who had every right to through their hands up can claim defeat, but strived and kept going against all odds... what’s makes those people so different from the rest of us?  Where they gifted a superpower of perseverance or endurance?

Just this morning I heard a snip-it on the radio about Job... you know the guy, right?   Job a wealthy man living in UZ with his large family.  He is blameless and upright he does the right thing in the eyes of God.  But Satan challenges God and in a sense they make a bet on how well Job would do in torment of Satan. 

I know what you’re thinking... nice God you got there toying with Job’s life but the story goes on and Job is tested and pretty much loses everything he has including all of his children, he is afflicted with skin sores and his wife basically losses all hope in him and tells him to curse God and die.  Wow.  If that isn’t overwhelming, all of his friends tell him, you must’ve done something pretty bad to have all this affiliation and Job is being punished.  They basically lay into Job and the story goes on, until ultimately God finally interrupts and pretty much puts all in place. 

The entire book of Job is difficult for many to understand, why an all-powerful God allows good people to suffer.   We don’t want to suffer and find ourselves with moments of in surmount.  We don’t want to feel defeated by any means, but that’s when God speaks to us the most...in our pain... in our sufferings.   

In the grand scheme of things,  I am not sure if I have ever had a problem or situation that was insurmountable.  Satan really does stand by waiting to whisper in our ears the lies,  the torment.  Satan often wants us to give up and say that is just too much for me <curse God.>

We often find ourselves too busy that often times we make our lives more complex than they need to be.  We plan expensive vacations only to realize the kids love playing in the back yard just as much.  We take jobs in which we know we can't do.  We make our lives overwhelming by trying to fill it with all the wrong things.    We make medical excuses when we can't justify our behaviors.  We lie, we steal, we cheat..  we are messed up individuals that will never have it all together.   And mostly we don't trust God enough to see us through the difficult times.

Life isn't as simple as ABC but it certainly isn't as insurmountable as we all think.