I will always remember the first person who said to me. . .you don’t know the problems I’ve got.
I said, “You’re right and I don’t want to know.”
It’s not that I wasn’t compassionate about his situation but I knew I had to provoke this man’s thinking because his focus was on his problems and not his solution.
I told him that circumstances are defined as the circle you’re standing in. . .but if you’re moving from glory unto glory. . .you will be leaving your circumstances and those problems behind.
Then I shared Romans 8:26 in The Living Bible which says:
“And in the same way—by our faith—the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words.”
I’m not sure why this event came to my remembrance, but it prompted me to share with you four ways to deal with whatever problems you’re facing.
First, you can run away from your problems, but they won’t go away.
God doesn’t give us wings to fly away from problems. He doesn’t take us out of this world to keep us from experiencing pressure. Instead, He gives us the opportunity to look to Him for the strength to walk through the pressure and be spiritually enriched by the experience.
Second, if you avoid or go around problems. . .you are only putting them off to face at a later date.
Procrastination magnifies and, many times, multiplies your problems.
Harold Herring