This I know, that God is for me.
These are the words that I read out of Psalm 56 this morning. These are the words that I so desperately needed to hear.
Last night I tossed and turned, dreams filling my mind with unpleasant thoughts and pictures. This is always a sign that deep down, I am anxious and not trusting.
This morning I rushed around, dropping boys off at different locations so I could arrive, attempting to reclaim my scattered thoughts, for another meeting. The frantic busyness of my life was a perfect picture of the lack of peace in my soul.
Then the words of the Psalm came to my mind again: "You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?" As my God offers me His peace when I trust Him, He also lovingly keeps count of all my tossings while I try to live my life forgetting to call out to him for help. He gently gathers up all of my tears and saves them. He has not forgotten. This I know, that God is for me.
As I drove my boys through the gloom and rain, my mind raced, planning my day, my week. I rehearsed requests, pleadings, forms to be submitted, to-do lists. My anxious thoughts filled the quiet, threatening to take over any remaining strongholds of the peace that surpasses all understanding in my heart. But then the words came, whispering "in God I trust; I shall not be afraid."
For this I know, that God is for me.
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And that is faith at work, my dear friend.
Oh, I can so relate to this. God keeps reminding me to just trust Him. I am so glad He has so much patience because it is so hard to remember this simple request. I am finding though, as my faith grows, that trust does grow too and my anxieties lessen. He is so good.
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