I do a good bit of thinking while driving to and fro. This evening on my way home, I realized that we dwell more on what is wrong than the things that are right. It is calming to the soul when we grasp that God always has us on His mind. He is working. I suspect that He prefers to work the night shift. We can’t try to take control from Him when we are asleep. We have long discussions with Him on all that is going haywire and ask Him to intervene. Instead of letting go and leaving it with our Holy God, five minutes later, we have taken it all back to wring our hands over.
We panic when the things we need, the things we pray for, the assurance that everything will be okay, is not immediately available. My experience has been that all the above look far less frightening,when we get down the road a ways. We can look back and see the hand of God working on our behalf.
God is in His Holy temple. He does not change. We do. Children know how to trust. Then they start to grow up. Life begins to let them in on something. You cannot trust everyone. It takes a time or two of misplaced trust to instill a radar detector to keep them from harm’s way. Caution is born. Suddenly, that constant, happy phase of life has changed to a Murphy’s Law existence. If it can happen, it will happen to me.
God and Murphy’s Law do not keep company. God is holy. Murphy’s Law was a man-made list. Capt. Edward A. Murphy started the trend at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. God desires good things for His children. For every positive there is a negative. Our enemy desires that we have a Murphy’s Law kind of life. God desires that we have a good life, obedient to His will for us.
It may feel like some of the things that happen in life are miscalculations from God. That is not possible. If God does not make mistakes, who does? Society does, politicians do, our co-workers, our family and friends…we do. We all make mistakes. God does not.
A mistake that we make too often is going into panic mode and thinking that God has forgotten us. He has turned His favor away. He is not listening to our cries for help.
~Thought For Today~
God has not moved from His place. God has not forgotten His children. God hasn’t turned His face away. One wonders why He hasn’t in light of what is happening morally in our world. When we feel that has stepped away from our life? We are the one who has moved, forgotten, turned our face away. Not God. He stands waiting for us to run back to our place in Him. He is waiting for us to remember our past with Him. He is waiting for us to turn our face and look to Him.
~Scripture For Today~
Psalms 121:2-3
2 My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. (NASB)
Psalms 84:11
11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly. (NASB)
Psalms 19:7
7 The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. (NASB)
Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. (NASB)
~Prayer For Today~
Hello Father! You have not moved! Forgive us when we stray from Your counsel. We pray that we draw closer to You with each day. Father, bring to our mind our history with You. Those times when we have walked together. We pray that we seek Your face and Your will for our life, daily. Forgive us of our sins. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
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