Where do you go when.......

最近呼んでいる本の一つに（いくつかの本を併読するのが僕なので）、
「Ｂｉｇ　Ｇｏｄ」という本があります。ブリット・メリックという牧師の書いた本です。

本の全体を通して、私たちが本当に神に信頼したときに何が起こるのかということを書いています。

その本の最初のところに書かれていたことが良かったので皆とシェアします。（がんばって訳します）

「私たちがその知らせ（娘のデイジーがステージ３のがんを患っていること）を聞いたとき、私たちの思いは確かな道を通ってイエスへと向かった。私たちは神のことばに思いを巡らした。すぐに、私たちの心と思いはこれまでに学んだ真理で、神の御性格で満たされた。すぐに、私たちの心と思いは、神がこの世の初めからそうであるように、神がご自身の誠実さをご自身の民に何度も何度も示された話で満たされた。すぐに、私たちの心と思いは、あなたや私のような人が問題に直面した時に自分の小さな信仰を大きな神に置いた聖書の話で満たされた。」

「 僕はどうだろう？本当に追い込まれるまで、神のもとにはなかなかいかないじゃないか！！」と
ここを読んだときに、示された。
「困った時の神頼み」とあるけど、実は私たちはいつも困っていて、常にイエスのところに行くことを試されている。
パスター・ブリットは常にこのことを学んでいたから、そのような状況でも、神のもとへとすぐに生けたのだろう。
本当に、神に頼ることは、日々の生活から学ぶのだろう。わざわざ大きな試練を待つ必要などないのかもしれない。

One of the books I have been reading is called
"Big God" by Britt Merrick, pastor of Reality Carpinteria
Its subtitle is "what happens when we trust Him", so he is telling us what it is like to truly trust Jesus. 
 This passage spoke to me a lot, so I wanted to share this with you guys.
He is writing about how he and his family has been going through ( still now ) difficult time for his daughter' cancer treat ment.
 here he says

"Our mind took a certain rout to Jesus when we first heard the news( that his daughter has stage 3 cancer). We went through the Word of God. Immediately our hearts and our minds were filled with truth we had learned from the Bible, and an understanding of the character of God. Immediately our hearts and our minds were filled with the story of God and how He has proven Himself faithful with His people over and over again, since the beginning of time. Immediately our hearts and minds were filled with the Bible's stories of people just like you and me who faced problems, and placed their little bit of faith in a big God."

I thought "When do I go to God, the Word of God?? Is it when only I face difficult and there is no way to go but to God?"
Pastor Britt was comforted by the Word of God, I think because he had been learning to trust God daily. That is why he was able to go to the Word of God.
I was really convicted by the Spirit.

I think we are daily challenged whether we trust Him or not.

We are always in difficult time; we are in spiritual warfare!!

So, when we face real difficult time like Pastor Britt, how we react is the mere evidence how we are walking daily.

So we, I should be learning to trust Him always. We don't have to wait for the big trail to come.

It is already here!!!