It’s Not The Size Of The Trial, But The Way You Look At It…
2 Kings 6:13-18 (New Living Translation)
13 “Go and find out where he is,” the king commanded, “so I can send troops to seize him.”
And the report came back: “Elisha is at
15 When the servant of the man of God got up early the next morning and went outside, there were troops, horses, and chariots everywhere. “Oh, sir, what will we do now?” the young man cried to Elisha.
16 “Don’t be afraid!” Elisha told him. “For there are more on our side than on theirs!” 17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire.
18 As the Aramean army advanced toward him, Elisha prayed, “O Lord, please make them blind.” So the Lord struck them with blindness as Elisha had asked.
The other day my daughter curled up in bed with me and wanted to watch a movie. I told her she could choose. She chose a movie called Penelope, it was a movie about a girl that was cursed at birth and her nose was replaced by a pig’s snout. Throughout the movie, her mother loved her but was always trying to find a way to remedy her daughter’s disfigured face; she tried to force her into marriage. As Penelope endured ridicule and being ostracized by many, she found herself faced with a pending marriage that would be loveless, but was thought to be something to break the curse over her. She decided to turn away from what she and others had seen as an opportunity afforded her to be freed from this bondage or curse. As she locked herself in her room to avoid the pressure of her mother and others, she came to the realization that she liked herself, just as she was, in that moment her snout disappeared and a nose appeared in its place. You see what she found was the power to break the curse lay within her all along, but she had been looking, at it all wrong and had been looking for a solution in the wrong places. As I watched the ending of the movie a poignant point was point out it was said “it is not the size of the curse, but how you look at it.”
How many times had I been in the fire, in a trial, or in a test and found myself, dreading every waking hour, or hating my life as I knew it to be? It was because all I saw was what I was going through, or how much pain I was in. I was focused on the magnitude of the situation, with no thought for who I was and whom I belonged to. I was looking at the angry waves, and the stormy seas that surrounded me, instead of seeing I had been redeemed from the curse of the law. I saw my bank account being low, or a husband being gone, or a friend’s lost, or sickness that was overwhelming, instead of remembering who was on my side, and who was my Lord and Savior. So many times we will let what we see, overtake us, so that we forget what is there that we do not see. We are seeing, but we aren’t really looking at it with the eyes of God or the mind of Christ. Recently, as I have endured trials, I have not looked at the illness, but been thankful for another day that I could see my children make another step towards adulthood, I have looked at how blessed I am in spite of what I do and don’t have. I look at the fact that God says in my weakness He is strong. I look and see that greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. I also have been able to see that God must have enough confidence in me to know that I can make it through with His help, because He has made me more than a conqueror!
As you are faced with test, trial and tribulations, remember whose army you are apart of and who is fighting beside and for you. Open up your eyes and see that God is before you and He alone is more than the world against you. That all that you are going through is for your making not for your breaking (no matter what people may say). Trust God and see yourself, healed, delivered, strengthen and prospered. Keep your eyes on the fact that God is able even when we are not! Remember He’s Able! That means if you are in Christ, that makes you ABLE too!
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