God just gave me an opportunity to help a Fellow Christian sister in need of encouragement. She is going through a very tough divorce and she sent me an email stating that it feels as if she has no more reason to smile and asked me to pray for her…

I promised I would keep her in my prayers and gave her some words of encouragement that I could never have thought up all by myself. I Reminded her that divorce is a very sensitive matter as it goes directly against God’s will, but the bible also mentions that it is only “justified” when one partner has been unfaithful in the sense of committing adultery.

I also reminded her of the book of Job: Job was so perfect in the eyes of God that he gave satan permission to torment him. Job, who was the richest man of the east at that time, lost all his cattle, his riches, his Ten Children and also became very ill. His wife asked how come he still remains faithful to God instead of cursing him for bringing such Hard Times into his life and he replied that when God gives us good times we do not complain, so why complain when God gives us tough times? Instead of forsaking God, Job remained faithful and in the end he was blessed with the return of all his lost riches and was also blessed again with another ten children.

I said to this friend that instead of asking God why we go through hard times, we should embrace those hard times and worship him even more because it is through times like these that we are drawn closer to God. We should undoubtedly put our trust in Him. Take all our problems and leave it in God’s hands and He will give us rest.

She then thanked me and said I was a blessing to her although she never even met me, but I reminded her that it is not me who is the blessing, instead it is God’s Holy Spirit that has worked through me so I could have the wisdom to help her and encourage her to remain faithful to God and I as a mere servant cannot take credit for a lesson that God has written thousands of years ago.

It made me feel good for helping, but I should thank God for using me to help another Christian and she should thank the Lord for providing counsel through me and not thank me.