God’s Bootcamp

Are you currently struggling with life’s circumstances that are perplexing to you?  Perhaps you are just in boot camp.  When life situations seem out of sync, or does not live up to our expectations, perhaps you are in God’s training camp.  The God we serve often prepares us for the future even when we cannot understand the “why” of it all.

Consider Moses.  He likely could not see the hand of God in his situation.  After all, his sister set him adrift on the Nile River to save him from death.  God strategically placed him as an orphan in Pharaoh’s house.  I wonder how alone and isolated he felt?  .

Moses would need his early experiences to negotiate, successfully, the release of his people from Pharaoh.  He needed to understand the customs, speak the language, and have the ability to walk in and out of Pharaoh’s house without restrictions.

He spent his next years in the wilderness.  This experience would equip him to lead the Israelites through their wilderness journey. 

Instead of fretting over your current situation, perhaps you should embrace your life and ask God, “what is it that you want me to learn here?”  We should always be aware of God’s lessons for us.  God uses circumstances and conditions develop your natural gifts, advance your faith, and strengthen your stamina Along with these, negotiating difficulties will establish patience and endurance in you. 

God’s training enables our compassion and settles our character.  It advances our vision using our need to create solutions to our problems.  We learn to love Him, seek Him, trust in Him, rely on Him, and be dependent on Him.  We need the assurance that He never fails, and that he surely answers prayers.

James 1:4-8 King James Version (KJV) ⁴ But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.