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When somebody you love is struggling and sinking and scared, you’ll probably be struggling and sinking and scared, too, until you remember (for both of you) how safe and soaring trust is.
“Trust (be bold and confident and safe and secure and without care) in the Lord with your whole inner being -- your whole mind and imagination and will and heart and soul.” Proverbs 3:5
“Those who wait expectantly for the Lord . . . will soar on wings like eagles.” Isaiah 40:31
When you’re in discontented, me-monster mode, you can choose to stay that way or you can choose to get well. It all depends on what you want.
“Do you want to get well?” John 5:6
“[W]e can choose to see our circumstances as limitations, or [we can] choose to see them as divinely appointed gateways [through which we] learn more of God’s goodness, His faithfulness, His kindness. . . .” Barbara Brand
I have a young friend named Gracie who lives with all her heart. When she hears about something new and unknown, her eyes shine and get even bigger. Do mine?
“Keep on asking. . . . Keep on seeking. . . . Keep on knocking. . . .” Luke 11:9
“Longing is the heart’s treasury.” St. Augustine
What if, whenever somebody close to you isn’t pleasing in your eyes, you skipped right over poor-me and asked the God of hope to make everything about her pleasing in His eyes?
“May the words of [_____’s] mouth and the musings of [her] heart be pleasing in Your eyes. . . .” Psalm 19:14
“God . . . calls into being that which does not yet exist.” Romans 4:17
When you’re in the habit of depending on your own strength, you collect a whole entourage of fears (the front-and-center kind, plus all the stealth ones that fly below the radar). Once you stop, they won’t stick around long.
“Let me distrust myself and put my trust in You.” St. Augustine
“I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord is my strength and my song. . . .” Isaiah 12:2
Have you ever noticed that people who are hard on other people tend to get hard (and small and unhappy) themselves?
“Do not judge others . . . for . . . with the standard of measure you use it will be measured back to you.” Matthew 7:1-2
“The world thirsts for grace.” Philip Yancey
