Inspiration for Your Week #11

Hello my friends! As we enter a new month tomorrow—actually, the first month of a new season, we’re mindful of the uncertainty of life. Yesterday at church, the preacher reminded us that we are not in control. I know that I too often forget that! There is something in us that fears losing control, but the reality is, we’ve never had it. I was reminded anew to surrender my life—every hope, every dream, every fear, every uncertainty—into the hands of my loving Lord. Into the hands of my living Lord!

Because while I am not in control, God is. He is as real, as powerful, as almighty as He was in days past. And He loves me–He proved that at the cross. He’s with me—so why do I fear losing control? Because I fear suffering? The fact is, though, that the Lord never promised to spare us suffering. He never promised that life would be easy, painless, or go the way we want. He did promise to be with us. To give us sufficient grace. What He may not choose to do for us, in releasing us from trials and difficulty, He can do in us, by strengthening us to walk in victory.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:16-17).

The Living God. How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is this very thing that we are so prone to lose sight of! We know that it is written “the living God”; but in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically so much lose sight of as the fact that God is The Living God; that He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since; that He has the same sovereign power, the same saving love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had, and that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the living God, the unchanging One. Oh, how therefore we should confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be The Living God! — George Muller, Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

Let’s live our lives in the sure knowledge that we serve the living God. Not a historical God from years ago, but the real, living, loving, unchanging God revealed in Scripture. He is with us.

Resting in Him,

Naomi