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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
Rather than seeking total control, relinquish it. You can't run the world, but you can entrust it to God. This is the message behind Paul's admonition to "rejoice in the Lord." Peace is within reach, not for lack of problems, but because of the presence of a sovereign Lord. Rather than rehearse the chaos of the world, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty, as Paul did. Sovereignty gives the saint the inside track to peace. Others see the problems of the world and wring their hands. We see the problems of the world and bend our knees.
Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.
Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.
God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.
