Dear Georgene,
This is just a word intended to stir you up and remind you of some very dear truths that you seem to have been wavering on these past few days.
Your life will not always be ‘easy’ or as you have ‘planned’ it. You have choices to make in those times. You can either choose to dwell on what you want changed (and be miserable) or you can trust God and be content! Believe me.. you ARE making a choice each and every moment of the day! Will you allow yourself to be discontent or will you make a decision to trust that He is perfectly and wholly in control of every detail in your life?
(Ahh… therein lies the peace that settles my heart… therein is the soft pillow of rest for my soul. My God is in control! He does not sleep nor slumber. He has not taken off on vacation. He is the ruler of THE universe and my own personal circumstances.)
Nothing, Georgene, including your present circumstances are out of His control. The economy is not in control! The real estate market is not in control. Your husband is not ultimately in control of your family’s decisions. The job market is not in control. All is overseen by the loving hand of your heavenly Father who sovereignly rules in wisdom, love and power for your good and His glory.
Will you trust His will for your life when your circumstances are not as ‘YOU’ would choose? Do you mistakenly think that you have more wisdom than He to know what is best for you? Do you believe that He has all power to redeem even your sinful choices and those of others? Whom will you trust to know what is best for you? Yourself or the God who loved you enough to send His one and only beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to die in your place for the sins you have and will commit?
Will He not much more give you only what is best each and every day as He weaves together your joys, sorrows, disappointments, blessings into a beautiful tapestry that is purposed to bring Him glory?
Rest in His love for you! Rest in His plan for your life as it unfolds each and every moment of your day!
Signed, (umm…….*S*)
Yourself!!!
(Thanks self! I needed that! *S*)
Job 42:2.. I know that you can do all things,
and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
Isa 14:24… “As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,”
Isa 14:27.. the LORD of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
Eph 1:11 -who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Ps 103:19 - The LORD has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.
(Scriptures taken from the new ESV version)