God, the fixer is more than able to fix it all! The biggest problem confronting us today irrespective of religion, creed or gender, has to do with our
God, the fixer is more than able to fix it all! The biggest problem confronting us today irrespective of religion, creed or gender, has to do with our inability to TRUST God completely and absolutely.
By displaying and practising childlike FAITH in Him, all that we considered as insurmountable problems will look like nothing. He gave us His words to always be there for us, so why do we fret?
Why do we think about our problems and forget His promise. Is there anything impossible for Him to do? Instead what we do is asking: How do I cope in this time of recession? Who will support me as a single parent? Who should I approach for help to settle my bills? My marriage is at the brink, how do I fix it? My health is deteriorating every minute, can I survive it? Tomorrow’s meal is not certain etc…
These and many more are questions frequently asked by folks today, and which have the capability to lead to depression or suicide. The unfortunate thing here is: we are fixated with the questions whilst ignoring the fixer! We should live our faith.
How do I preach or how do I console someone in need when I don’t have solution to the myriad of problems they are grappling with? We all wake up and retire to bed with loads of things on our minds. Chiefly among which are financial and health and it is trite to say money cannot buy good health because one way or the other we have individually and collectively confirmed this at various times.
Marital turbulence, the hot cake in town now, with divorce and separation flying around like it is going out of fashion! The bible does not promise a perfect life but encourage us to face it with long suffering and with the promise of glorious end and a beautiful crown in heaven.
My major concern here is how we tend to forget the fixer anytime we are in problem but focus more on the problem instead? We kinda nurse the problem than casting it unto Him who can fix it. The book of Ecclesiastes confirmed there is no new thing under the sun which implies that none of these issues are new. No one is problem free. We all face it one way or the other. He is more than able!
Even as Christians, we are guiltier of this than the so-called unbelievers. I consider this a great sin and the question is how are we different from unbelievers? We put our problems ahead of seeking Him, asking rhetorical questions that have no answer: how can God allow this to happen to me? Why me? But I never fail with my tithes, etc. Instead of sojourning into the abyss of these endless questions without answer, our first response should be it is well and there and then take everything to the fixer.
Since we can’t fix this problem ourselves, the most logical thing is to take it to the one who can fix it. Your mechanic is the first that comes to mind when you have issue with your car and your Doctor is the first to consult you have health issues and the lawyer, the person to contact for legal advice. The great fixer is always there and ever willing to fix it up for us.
Let us endeavours to take our burdens to Him. We should contact Him first in our prayer to direct and show us the way before any further move.
Esther Palmer is a London based writer and photographer.
She combines this with teaching of the Word, her primary interest.
Email: ohams_70@yahoo.co.uk
