It's easy to say you know God but having an experiential knowledge of Him is totally different. To say you know the President of Nigeria is a tenable fact, at least one can claim to have almost all the statistics of him but that doesn't mean he has a personal relationship with you enough to call you up at anytime to discuss pertinent issues. Same with the Lord, it all begins with a personal relationship that you and I must establish by an act of our wills then the relationship grows by the day and the depth and level of that growth is dependent on how much am willing to let him control my life.
In the last 2 weeks, work for me has been quite tedious, at the same time the Lord was stretching my faith in an area where I wouldn't complain except there's a deadline. I had thought through and through WHY LORD? Can't you just help me through? I know you can, so what do you intend to do by stretching me? At first I prayed, then I began to ask questions, then I became angry with the Lord because I wanted to know why? In His sovereignty I've learned that it was just a test of my faithfulness to him, not so much the volume of work I did but by how much I was willing for Him to work through me. It hit me so hard that just a day to the deadline, He showed up beyond my expectation.
Through this I've learned that the next time the Lord decides to stretch me, it is to test my faithfulness to him, whether my faith was truly in him or men.
