Life is full of things that can distract us and make us take our eyes off of the Lord. We may get sick. We may lose our job. There maybe some sort of crisis that comes our way. We all encounter those moments of trial. In the midst of those trials we may wonder, "what are You up to, Lord?".
We may not sense His presence in our lives at those moments. We may just feel stuck right where we are and we may even wonder if things will ever get better. We must remind ourselves that God can see the full picture of what is happening in each of our lives. We can see very far ahead in our lives, but God knows what is around every corner. He is not surprised by anything that comes our way. The Lord knows everything about us and everything that will occur during our lifetimes all the way to the very end when our faith will become sight and we see the Lord Jesus with our own eyes.
The Lord promises to always be with us during each step of our journey here on earth and He always keeps His promises. What an Awesome God we serve. Sometimes we enter times in our lives when it feels as though fear is pushing us around like a school yard bully. The Lord promises to protect us and He will. That doesn't mean that we won't go through tough times. We will, but we must remember that it is during those tough times that our faith is being strengthened if we keep our Lord set before us. It will be hard. We may spend many hours in prayer with tears, but we must keep crying out to the Lord and trust Him.
We must take refuge in the Lord Jesus. He is our Lord and apart from Him we would have nothing. Everything that we have comes from the Lord. We aren't even in control of our next breath. That can be kind of scary if we are not trusting in Him fully. He isn't out to hurt us in anyway. He wants us to fully surrender our entire lives to Him and live for Him fully.
We can't live the Christian life on our own. We need the Lord to live it through us by the Holy Spirit whom we have received when we believed on Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
The Lord will lead us through the dark deep lonesome valley's. He will lead us by the still waters. He will guard us and protect us. We need to let go of the controls and let God have His way in our lives. Giving up control is never easy because we can be rather selfish and we want to hang onto things tightly. There are things we must surrender to the Lord. We need to lay down our pride and our selfishness and put the Lord first in our lives.
When we put our faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ we can say, "I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken." (Psalm 16:8)
The Lord Jesus will see us through all of life difficulties no matter how terrifying that can be at times. He will see us through them all. He will take us through the fire and He will eventually will lead us Home where we will be with Him forever.
Praise the Lord!
Thank You, Jesus!
He is worthy of all of our praise.
I pray that you are trusting Him more each and everyday. He loves you.
Let us set our focus upon the Lord.
Lord,
We thank You for Your goodness and Your love for us.
We love You Lord.
Thank You for saving us by Your sacrifice on the Cross.
Thank You for the promise of Heaven for all who believe on You.
Thank You for forgiveness of our sins by Your shed blood.
Lead us and direct our steps by Your Holy Spirit.
In Jesus name,
Amen.
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