TGIF...today we're picking up where we left off yesterday with the idea that, regardless of external circumstances, God is with us, living and working in us, and that God is not a God of confusion but of peace, peace that transcends our ability to understand how or why...
This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is his name: "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."
Jeremiah 33:2,3
"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD.
Isaiah 1:18
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5,6
Love that last verse--of course we tend to get tunnel vision on the "He willl direct your paths" part while missing the 2 conditions--first that we have to know Him and trust Him completely, a process that takes both time and consistent effort to make a quiet space in our schedules ('cause it's not like our lives naturally make it easy to seek spiritual things--or maybe it's just me
), and secondly, to check with Him first before running off in a given direction (here again, I'm sure it's just me). Neither one is the easiest thing ever to accomplish, but then nothing worthwhile ever is.In another version it says it like this:
Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind, and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know Him, recognize Him, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.
Amen to that...you've been prayed for today...
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