Surrender
Blessed
is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. – Jeremiah 17:7
Worries
abound. Health issues. Financial issues. Relationship issues. It’s like there
is always something that threatens to steal our peace and drive us to the brink
of anxiety.
We live in
an uncertain world. Just when we think Covid is about to end, another variant
emerges and here we go again. Have you lost someone you cared about to Covid? I
have. Many times over. Age doesn’t seem to matter. Covid doesn’t just hit the
old and ill. It takes the young and healthy.
Prices on
everything are skyrocketing. Food and gasoline and everything else are much
higher now. But paychecks haven’t increased to cover those extra costs. Jobs are
everywhere. Despite ugly comments about people too lazy to work and government
handouts, unemployment is low. There simply aren’t enough people to fill vacancies,
especially when those vacancies are for low pay.
Relationships
are stressed by all the demands of this new life we didn’t want. Kids are in
school one day and virtual the next. Parents are juggling jobs and schoolwork
and childcare. Older folks are isolated from their peers and, in some cases,
their families. We are all struggling in what appears to be an unending path to
destruction.
How do we
survive? God. We’re trying to manage things we were never meant to manage. We’re
trying to control things we can’t control. We are allowing life to bring us to
the breaking point without realizing God is the only One who is steadfast and
true. He is the only anchor in this thing we call life.
What would
happen if you simply surrendered it all to God? What would it feel like to hand
it all over to the One who loves you most, the One who knows the answers, the
One who can protect you from all harm?
We don’t have to do life on our own. We really don’t have to know all the answers. We can simply trust God and KNOW that He is in control and that we can find rest in the shelter of His arms
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