When I awoke, my mind already rushing with thoughts of yesterday…last night…the election…what if…what if…what if God gives us, America, just what we deserve. There really isn’t any way to know what America as a whole deserves…not in God’s economy, and yet, I know we don’t deserve anything but death and hell. But He is a good God that longs for our hearts to be turned to Him, so He allows things in our life that pushes us to seek Him.
God gives always great and wonderful gifts, even in the seemingly small and insignificant things. It just takes stopping…searching…trusting. I continue to try…
Late last night as he our college boy texts me, wondering what Grandpa Whitehead would have to say about all that is America now, I remind him that perhaps now, yes now, Grandpa knows so much more than us. “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” 1 Corinthians 13:12 I say, Grandpa sees God’s face and he doesn’t fear or wonder anymore, he trusts fully! He is in the very presence of the One that we long to trust so deeply.
We can’t begin to know what God has in store for our tomorrows, but we can know Him and I hope you do.
Truly I know I can trust Him. He has proved Himself over and over. Why is it so easy to get lost in fear, when I know Him?? Why do I not thank Him in all things, even today, when things maybe don’t go the way I thought perhaps they should. Yes, why now do I fear? My sister in Christ, Ann Voskamp said on her blog recently, “Authentic thanks is always for all things, because our God is a God kneading all things into a bread that sustains.”
I desire intensely “authentic” faith and thanksgiving. The kind that doesn’t falter, even when things look to be going so wrong in our nation. I know that it is God “who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men of understanding.” Daniel 2:21
I yearn that I would allow God to sustain me. The kind of sustaining that completely satisfies my every craving. The only way to do that is to look to Him every time, not to food, people, stuff, money, or anything else that distracts me from Him.
Oh, that the prayer of my heart would become, “Lord, sustain and satisfy me in a way that only You can do”.
I long to trust with an open hand that “God is kneading all things into a bread that sustains”, and so today I make a choice to do so, choosing faith and not fear, thanking Him in ALL THINGS, reaching for Him alone!!
“But He is a good God that longs for our hearts to be turned to Him, so He allows things in our life that pushes us to seek Him.”
I was thinking just this thing this morning. We all assume that God would want a person in the white house who would love the things he loves. Life, liberty, etc etc. But maybe he loves us enough to drive us to our knees so that more people truly turn to him as we trust and obey him in the midst of this trial. I don’t like that idea or what we will have to suffer but if our mind is to be like his then we need to be thankful for the things that push us toward him.
Kim,
I agree, He does love us enough to drive us to our knees. His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts…