When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, Truths You Can't Live Without

by Laura Story

Am I going to let my circumstances determine my view of God, or am I going to let God determine how I view my circumstances?

The answer to why doesn’t help us heal. But knowing that God’s glory can be displayed, even in the brokenness of our lives, gives us hope despite our circumstances. I promise you will find more purpose and joy in your life if you set aside the why and begin to ask how.

How might God use your weakness, infirmity, or disability to display his power? How might God use your hard circumstances to show you something about himself? How might God use your hard circumstances to show you something about yourself? How might God use your pain for a purpose? How might God make this mess into a message? How might God use your current chaos to make you into a man or woman who walks by faith, not by sight? How might God use your situation to show you that true peace is found only in him? How might God use an untimely death to stir the hearts of others and show them the importance of eternal security in the life to come? Take a moment and ask God for wisdom in writing your own how list. Refer back to your why questions for inspiration if necessary, but know that your questions and answers may be incomplete or even unsatisfying. I’ll be right here when you finish.

God was asking me to reveal the brokenness in my life not to show how faithless I was, but how faithful he is. God wasn’t going to use me in spite of my hard story; he was going to use my hard story.

That’s how I felt when God was calling me to tell my story. A story without an ending. A story, not of hope but of being held by him during my hopelessness.