Goals
- Closer relationship with God- Today this is one goal that I do not want to skip. Today was a day to reflect on how much dependence I have on God. Really, everything is dependent on God.
- Get Fit- as much as it scares me I am taking a rest day as I have an upper respiratory infection and am wheezing so bad it is pretty hard to breathe.
- House organization- nothing today
- writing – nothing today
- Camper reno- nothing today
Rest Day
As I mentioned I am sick, have been sick for a few days with a head cold that has moved to my lungs and flaring my asthma. So today I lounge until I have to go to work. This all made me think of rest and how we would have much more peace if we turned everything over to God. I know we all know this on some level and I believe that we do in fact say “God I just can’t handle anymore I need you to step in”. I have done this but then turned around and taken it back, to worry over, become anxious over it and let it steal my peace. I learned last year that God is sovereign. On some level, I understood the overall concept of sovereignty. When I heard it explained that everything that happens to you was either caused or allowed by God. That everything goes through His hands. This concept may take awhile to sit with to totally understand, at least I had to process it. Everything good and everything bad that happens, God knows about. There is not anything that surprises him. Think of the passage in Romans ” and we know that in all things God works for good to them that love him, who have been called for his purpose”. If you are saved then this passage means a great deal to you. This isn’t to say that everything that happens to you will be good but even in bad things God will give you a good outcome. This may be very hard to see when you are going through the bad thing. I think this is when a prayer journal comes in, you can look back and see that you really were equipped to get through. Look at the times that something bad happened and at the end something good came out of it. Perhaps, sometimes you can’t see the good in something. Perhaps you let go too soon? Quit praying , quit hoping? I am guilty of this in the past. It is easy to let your feelings bog you down into a pity party. You begin to focus on everything that is wrong and not on everything that is right. You lose hope. We have to focus on God, the God that is bigger than any problem you may face. He can handle it, turn it over to him and leave it there. Rest in his faithfulness. As with anything in life, baby steps.
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