Bishop E. Earl Jenkins
"If you give up your life for me, you will save it." Luke 9:24 CEV
When you obsess over problems instead of looking to God for solutions,the enemy will magnify your fears. If he can't get you to worry aboutthe present he'll remind you of everything that could go wrong in thefuture! Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "All I have seen, has taught me to trust God for all I haven't seen."
The last time you checked, wasn't God still bigger than any terrorist attack, financial disaster, illness, accusation, or mess you found yourself in? Well, He hasn't changed! David said, "He won't go to sleep...The Lord is...at your right side...[He] will...keep yousafe...wherever you go" (Ps 121:3-8 CEV); plus His angels are watching over you 24/7. It all comes down to faith vs. control.
You can struggle to handlethings on your own - or trust your Heavenly Father. That's the choice! It's not about 'blind faith,' it's about believing that God is who He says He is. And it's an issue you need to settle in your mind once and for all, because if you don't believe He wants only the best for you, you'll keep trying to run the show. Control isn't responsibility. Responsibility is doing your part by praying, obeying, and trusting God. Control is manipulating the circumstances to engineer the outcome you want. Jesus knows how we like holding on to things we're not wise enough tocontrol, so He said, "If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give [it] up...for me, you will save it" (Lk 9:24 CEV).
Bottom line - you either trust God or you don't!
5 comments:
See, this is what i'm talking about. I needed to hear this today. Thanks for sharing.
I KNOW, KNOW, KNOW THAT'S RIGHT.
nice words of wisdom babycakes! ;-)
with all the things that have happened to me... i have to trust God or go crazy.
yeah, yeah, yeah. We only believe God for what we can see. As soon as we can't know what's around the corner, we put Him in the closet and resort to our own devices. Interesting...that was the scripture from this Sunday's sermon.
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