"When I am afraid, I put my trust in you"(Psalm 56:3)
I am currently standing still while there is so much happening all around me. The only power I have over anything is the power to surrender it over to God and wait. There is an unspoken power in standing still. Standing still when there is a storm around me means I am not panicking, it means that, although it would make more sense to some for me to reach out to others for answers, desperately seeking a solution, something in my spirit has finally understood that God is in control.
It's humbling and heartbreaking to give up worry and power, perceived or real, when those are my go-to coping mechanisms. It feels like I am waiting for God to reach into my life and make something out of nothing. But as His Word says, "Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world" (1st John 4:4). So while I stand small in stature, surrounded by these giants in my life, I know that God almighty stands with me. He knows that there are many battles to be fought along the way, but He has already made a way, and given my family and I the victory over them all.
So while my heart hurts, and I am facing some impossible looking circumstances, I know that He knows the beginning from the end. He is telling my story. So when I am tempted to give into self-pity, and desperation as if I have no hope, I can say what David said, "Why are you downcast oh my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him my savior and my God" (Psalm 42:5).
Amen.
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