Ever get stuck in "down and out?" Run down and
weary? Tired? Overwhelmed?
Unsure. Maybe you are like me
and always try to “fix” yourself...somehow.
When you feel unsettled or when something troubling comes up and you feel like you need to get it out by talking things over with a friend, husband, or
whoever is your first person to confide in.
Or perhaps it is food you
turn to first, usually not even realizing it but those yummy things somehow
always seem to make you feel better…for a moment. Chocolate is so heartwarming...isn’t it! Don’t know about you but so often I am turning
first to everything else except where I should be, and that is to God in
prayer. Search His word. “Casting all your anxieties on him, because
he cares for you.” -1Peter 5:7
Secondly, focus on being
grateful, thankfulness always puts things into a better perspective. Here is a little excerpt from Oswald Chambers;
it was on my calendar today:
“Let us go to Judea
again.” The disciples said to Him, “…are
You going there again?” –John 11:7-8
“Faith is not intellectual
understanding; Faith is a deliberate commitment to the Person of Jesus Christ,
even when I can’t see the way ahead. Are
you debating whether you should take a step of faith in Jesus, or whether you
should wait until you can clearly see how to do what He has asked? Simply obey Him with glad, unrestrained Joy.”
Right now is the perfect
time to remind ourselves to put our focus on Christ. The day we celebrate on Sunday changed life forever.
It gives us hope. Gives us what
we could never deserve because our sin killed our chance to have a relationship
with our Creator. But Jesus restored
it. There is a place to focus. My heart will rest on that hope. One more unexplainable thing is that God
doesn’t see me as the sinner I am, He sees me through His son.
“You sin, and
if you are His and the Holy Spirit indwells you, you know what your sins are.
How on earth are you going to get up tomorrow morning and say, “I’m going to
serve God today” . . . how are you going to do that? You have to know that
you’re forgiven, and you have to know that you are righteous, and you have to
know He loves you. It’s the only way.” --Elyse Fizpatrick
One thing I
won’t understand this side of forever: God sees you as righteous.
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