Greetings to you in the wonderful name of Jesus – THE Risen Saviour! Wow! another lovely day in the Kingdom and we give thanks for who God is and what He is able to do. I trust that you had a good weekend and Monday … surviving the wind storm and return to winter. It is really a blessing to have a new week to explore and experience…I think God has much in store for us as we come to the end of a month. By the way, it is less than 10 months to Christmas! Today I will be praying for you, asking Father to release the blessing of health and strength and extreme happiness to you.
Today my devotional reading challenged me in a very particular way. I don’t know about you, but I like singing songs and choruses about how awesome God is and how strong and how faithful and how much He is in control. It is really great to sing our theology but it gets very difficult to live out what we sing so positively about.
I really do believe God is in control and that nothing happens in my life until He approves of it…and it is especially easy to believe that when all things in my life are working out the way I want them to and expect them to. However when my plans are upset or I find myself in God’s waiting room or He adds a side order of complications to the table that I envision He has prepared for me — well my perspective and trust can be sorely tested. It is in moments like these that I truly discover who is really in control.
Now I am getting better. I am now a frequent visitor to an address in God’s Word: For my thoughts are not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours. Isaiah 55:8-9. And I now know for sure that there are some things that happen in my life that really cannot be explained, as I am only looking through the the perspective of a dark window…but the day will came – and has come many times, when the light comes on and clarity allows me to understand that He really is in control and knows what is best for me.
So, today my song of praise is: I shall not fear though darkened clouds may gather round me-The God I serve is one who cares and understands-Although the storms I face would threaten to confound me-Of this I am assured, I’m in His hands!…What though I cannot know the way that lies before me-I still can trust and freely follow His commands-My faith is firm since He it is who watches over me-Of this I’m confident: I’m in His hands!…In days gone by my Lord has always proved sufficient-When I have yielded to the law of love’s demands-Why should I doubt that He will evermore be present-To make His will my own? I’m in His hands! — Stanley Ditmer.
Who’s “hands” are you in today? — be blessed!