Why is it that we are always one phone call away, one moment
away, or one conversation away from shattering life changing news? As
unpleasantly true as it is we can’t go around living our lives as if it was
fact and not fiction. Wow, imagine that!
We’d all be living in fear of the next “moment.” Now there is a phobia
for you that could do a lot of damage.
Instead of living in fear of that next moment we need to be
prepared in a different way for it. Our preparation begins with leaning on,
trusting in, and being confident in the Lord with all our heart and mind. Stop!
Back the typewriter up right there; did you just type, “All your heart and
mind?” Sorry to burst any proofreading bubbles looking for typos but that is
what I typed, and more importantly it’s what God wrote in His word for our
guidance, giving God our ALL.
What God said in Proverbs 3 is exactly what we are to do with
ALL of our heart, mind, as well as our soul because that is what follows. The
crack in our foundation that keeps us from being totally prepared is the fact
that we have the tendency to hold back bits and pieces of our heart and mind
for ourselves. We love the Lord, we believe in Him and we think that is enough.
However, the minute we hold back pieces of ourselves for ourselves that is
where Satan gets his foothold into our lives. It is the very place where the damage
to our faith and trust in God begins.
We need to forget trying to lean on our own understanding
because try as we might there are things in life we will never understand. It’s
up to us to know and acknowledge God as we allow Him to do the leading, the
guiding, the straightening of our somewhat crooked paths. It’s up to us to
trust in and be confident in Him.
Too often we lose our confidence when we see bad things
happening to us. “If I can trust and lean on God then why did this or that
happened to me or my love one” Once again God never promised us a pain-free, no
storm, no trouble life if we lean on and rely and trust in Him. What His
promises tell us is that He can walk us through the storms in life and get us
through to the other side. The journey between the two destinations is where we
learn, grow, and mature into the people God designed us to be.
Right now in my heart as I type I battle with something
having to do with my dad. The news may be bad, it may be not so bad, it may be
ok but I won’t know until we talk to the doctor early this morning. I confess
the first thought that popped into my mind wasn’t, “Oh I’m leaning on the Lord
for this one.” No, my human reaction beat my spiritual response and I worried
that the news may be cancer.
We can’t stop those thoughts from popping into our heads but
we are responsible for whether we allow them to build a nest there or not. The
minute they come we need to stop and say to them, “No! Accessed to my heart
denied!” Refute them permission to stay as we decide we are not going to lean
on our own understanding but lean on God’s instead.
God is in control still no matter what the news we receive.
Our confidence comes from knowing that in our hearts and living it out in our
choices in life, our attitudes, and our actions. Relying on God with ALL our
ways with ALL our hearts is the way to go as anything else is only a temporary fix that will
eventually fail.
God will not fail us; we need to make sure we do the same
for Him as ALL our faith is in Him in ALL our ways. He’s reliable and we need
to be too. Now not later is the time to give Him our ALL.
© 2013 Karen J Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes
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