Where are you spending most of your thoughts? Is there a situation that worries you? Someone who’s attacking you? A sin you feel trapped in? Are your problems so up-in-your-face it’s hard to see anything else?
Anxious thoughts invite the enemy to worry you with all the more problems.
So, if you want the Lord to bring you through the tunnel of this trial, and renew you with peace and joy, then lay all your worries down at Jesus’ feet.
Ask Him what He says about your problem.
Jesus calling you now to “Come up here” with Him, out of that worry and into His arms. He’s got this. He knew the problem was going to happen long before it ever did, and He has a plan.
Turn to Him in your trial, not away. After all, God didn’t create us to have comfortable lives, get all we want, and then die. He created us for relationship.
So, trust in Him now.
This is what a Come-up-here moment with God can look like. He might:
- Realign your heart with His. Your problem may still be there. It’s your perspective He changes.
- Remind you of the trials His saints have endured through the centuries, showing you how your present trial is but a slender thread in a vast, intricate tapestry He’s weaving as He draws all nations to Himself.
- Show you something He’s doing in your heart.
- Show you what He’s doing in the hearts of others.
- Just sit with you, letting you feel His love, reminding you … He’s still Sovereign. He’s still in control. He’s still good. And His ways are still breathtakingly beautiful. Even if nothing in your trial changes.
Then there are those times when He changes everything; He was just waiting for you to seek His perspective first!
So, today, let’s take some time to be still before the Lord in surrender, and ask Him: “Lord, show me what You’re doing right now. Take me anywhere You want to take me. Let me see what You want me to see. Do anything in me and through me You want to. I am Yours.”
For steps to freedom from anxiety and fear, see Out You Go, Fear! (ages 4-8), Dare to Be a Mighty Warrior or Delight to Be a Woman of Wonder at MoreThanAConquerorBooks.com.
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