We are only stewards of everything we possess. We are stewards of our talents, time, jobs, finances, marriages, children, and ministries, to name a few. We must give an account of each of these to God. Sometimes in our lives, God calls us to account for ourselves, even before the “Great Judgment” after death. Those times may be crises for us.
God will humble us if we ask for the blessing but are unwilling to humble ourselves. This is what He did with the children of Israel.
Looking at the great men and women of faith, it is evident that there came a time of great humbling in each of their lives. Either from a struggle without or from loss within. But out of that humbling process came the seeking after God, bringing them into new and more incredible places of ministry and influence.
Faith is believing something you cannot see will happen. Fear is believing something you cannot see will happen. Confidence attracts the positive. Fear attracts the negative.
Give God the negatives. Don’t dwell on them. Take care of them privately. When you want to complain about someone, injustice, or trauma that apparently was caused by a person, take that up with the Lord out in the desert or on a mountaintop. Don’t take your murmurings to another person or live with them inside you. Confess sins, your own and those that others have committed against you, and ask to be cleansed from them. Admit what your conscience convicts you about; don’t cover it up.
Your children also don’t need to know the anxiety, the tension, the anger. Don’t communicate to your children the poverty attitude or your brokenness. While for you it is a passing crisis, it can become a lifetime habit for them to overcome. Your children do not need to be responsible for the knowledge of what you are going through.