Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7
Tag: God
aware.
Sometimes it feels like your situation will overtake you …
… but have you thought about the immensity of the earth and 2/3 is covered by water?
And yet it does not overtake the land.
How much more important are you?
God is fully aware of your situation.
Trust.
eternity.
He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has also set eternity in the human heart;
yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
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rhythm.
Pain disrupts the rhythm of our life.
Our hearts are like dry soil.
God waters the earth when it is time.
And the rhythm returns.
listening.
We’ve lost the art of listening.
We’ve got too many thoughts, opinions, and fixes.
We need to slow down and listen. Because sometimes that’s all it takes to help someone.
Simple, isn’t it?
We need someone to care about what we have to say.
But if there is no one, there is one who always listens. Anytime. Anywhere.
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
-The Bible
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Michelle Brea / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA girl
Bindaas Madhavi / Foter / CC BY-NC-ND
ecstaticist / Foter / CC BY-NC-SA cloud
sparrows.
The vehicle in front of me hit a bird.
My heart sank.
The driver didn’t stop. Most people do not.
But God does.
Jesus said:
What is the price of two sparrows–one copper coin? But not a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it?
He didn’t say God stops the sparrow from falling.
He said God knows about it.
A bird. There are millions of sparrows. Yet God sees the one.
He knows about you, too.
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close.
God is close to us. Very close.
He shows us in very personal ways.
That’s because despite the wrong in life, God wants us to know what is right.
Like the time I spotted a cardinal when I couldn’t seem to draw one to the feeder.
And the time I found the perfect picture for $3.99.
And the time I found the right color for my new bathroom for $2.99.
And the time I discovered the watering can I’ve always wanted for $5.
But most of all, on that dark day, when out of nowhere, the wind playfully stirred the leaves around my feet, swirling upward, enclosing me in a protective embrace. I surprised myself with a small laugh. God had descended upon me. And I knew it.
These moments are not for a select few. God embodies true love. He reveals himself to you because he cherishes you.
Who else would surprise you?
Only the one who knows what you need. And when you need it.
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tomorrow.
Some churches deal more with overcoming the pain than feeling it. That leaves people thinking they don’t have enough faith and they ignore the pain.
It’s just as wrong to ignore the pain and call it faith as it is to wallow in pain and never move through it the way God intended.
When my son died, there was no ignoring it. Pushing it away is like trying to cover a fatal, bleeding wound with your hand.
Each day, you face the pain. It is what it is and the best way is to have courage. Courage doesn’t mean you are not afraid, just like feeling pain doesn’t mean you don’t have faith.
Courage is based on truth and so we call it what it is. God has equipped us to walk through the pain, not avoid it.
When the sun goes down at the end of the day, darkness settles over us and we don’t see clearly. Things sometimes look worse.
But remember, the sun always rises in the morning. And the new day is meant to brings us new hope and a new outlook. Don’t dread tomorrow! God is with you always and will guide you through your pain if you let him.
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stars.
Did you know, God has names for every star in the universe?
He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.
Psalm 147:4
This is incredible!
If God cares that much to name the stars, how much more does he care for you?
When bad things happen to us, we immediately dismiss God’s care.
Yet, the world is broken. That means things break down.
But God is still God and he loves us so much he works things out – in his time.
© Kathleen Moulton
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