Today I met
with someone who is at the end of his rope. Everything he has invested in has
gone sour and he is left alone. As we talked I shared some of my thoughts from
yesterday about placing our trust in our hopes or even our ability to endure or
wait as opposed to placing our trust in God who is powerful to bring about
those things we hope in and to do them in His perfect timing. Then we talked
about the critical need that he had to first of all trust God for His salvation
and then see what God does afterward.
Following my
time with this man, I answered my phone to talk with another individual who has
walked through a difficult situation for a long time and who has struggled like
all of us with hopes and waiting, yet has found God to be faithful in directing
her steps and guarding her heart. The difference between these two individual
is not that one really is “better” than the other, but that one has and is
continuing to learn to trust God for the really hard stuff and the other is
still trusting in his ability, or lack thereof, to manage his circumstances.
Today Sarah writes about how we can learn to live above our circumstances.
Today in
“Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young (3/13)
Learn to
live above your circumstances. This requires focused time on Me, the One who
overcame the world. Trouble and distress are woven into the very fabric of this
perishing world. Only My Life in you can empower you to face this endless flow of
problems with good cheer.
As you sit
quietly in My Presence, I shine Peace into your troubled mind and heart. Little
by little, you are freed from the shackles and lifted up above your
circumstances. You gain My perspective on your life, enabling you to
distinguish between what is important and what is not. Rest in My Presence,
receiving Joy that no one can take away from you.
“These
things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you
will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John
16:33 (NKJV)
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