“How could they be so wicked, always stepping on the clothes I wash? This is injustice! And they want me to help their children prepare for exams. These neighbours; they just keep picking on me.” Eewo I sympathise with you, because God is always at work in you to make you willing and able to obey his own purpose do everything without complaining or arguing so that you may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children Php 2:13-15(GNB).
Have you prayed about it? “I have but it hasn’t stopped. On top of it it’s tough at home lately. They don’t appreciate me and speak harshly when I make mistakes. Have Christians forgotten we should correct others in the spirit of gentleness? I want to serve Jesus but see now. I just feel like crying.”
No, rejoice. “Rejoice? Why? People are hammering me and you say rejoice!” It was you who asked God to make you part of His temple and fill you with His glory; He is answering. “How? By allowing unbelievers to harass me?” For the temple both believers and unbelievers worked to fashion the stones: they cut fine large stones for the foundation of the Temple. Solomon's and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Byblos prepared the stones and the timber to build the Temple1Kgs 5:17, 18 (GNB). God uses others to hammer His children into shape outside before He puts them in position; He is making you fit for use. The stones with which the Temple was built had been prepared at the quarry, so that there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was being built 1Kgs 6:7(GNB).
“What are you trying to say? I haven’t been taught that.” Jesus wants to use you as a vessel of honour in His hands; having blessed you He must now break you before sending you forth. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and gave them to his disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds Mat 14:19(ISV).
“How long is this going to last, I can hardly bear it.” Not long beloved, though I can’t tell how short. And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing 1Pt 5:10(BBE).
“Ah so this will keep going on and God will leave me here. It’s not funny o.” No my dear, Jesus never uses you to dump you. After He broke the bread they were multiplied, and you know what? He never left the broken pieces when leaving (Mat 14:20). Those broken by Jesus are gathered up and carried at the end of their service. And when they were filled, he saith unto his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost Jn 6:12(ASV).
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