When Jesus was speaking to his disciples…
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, i would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.”
John 14:1-4
(This photo was taken in the summer of 2015 on a lake in central Minnesota)
“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’.”
Matthew 19:26
(This photo was taken in March of 2014 in California near San Diego)
This is the first section I ever highlighted in my bible…we waste so much time not trusting that God will provide all that we need that it is difficult to get to what he intends our lives to be…
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you , O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Matthew 6:25-34
(This photo was taken in the summer of 2012 while driving to a lake in NW Wisconsin)
“Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. When the spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them- the Lord, who remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free, the Lord gives sight to the blind, the Lord lifts up those who are bowed down, the Lord loves the righteous. The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the Lord.”
Psalm 146
(This photo was taken during the summer of 2014 in central Minnesota)
Trust
“Trust in the Lord and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37:3-4
We All Have A Choice
Which way to go? What is the right path? What if this or that happens? Maybe I should wait to decide? Life is full of choices each and every day. From many experiences in my life I am beginning to learn to ask different questions like…What is God up to in my life? or How does God want to use me today?
I usually run into trouble when I start thinking too much about a decision on my own and I have been a slow learner when it comes to “consult God first and leave it in his hands”. What I have found is life decisions seem to be easier when I look to God first and ask for wisdom and guidance regarding a situation rather than try to process every “If then” and “What if” I can think of on my own.
I can’t stop thinking about what the apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 12:10 “That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, than I am strong”.
To me that says when I rely on God first, when I surrender to his will and not my own, that is when I can be at my best in this world.
In life it all comes down to this….we all have a choice on how we are going to live our lives…are we going to consult the Creator? The one who made us, who loves us no matter what? Or are we going to continue to stumble along the path of the fallen world and live writhing in sin without regard for what God intended for us? (Been there done that)
We all have been given the same thing…..life and some amount of time to live it…what we choose to do with it is up to us.
May God’s peace be with you.
Take Your Faith With You 