Remembering

The thing about trusting in God is that it is sometimes hard to remember His promises when you're in the midst of tough times and hardships. I guess that is why it is important to have memory verses and fellowship and good friends. We often have to go to those things to remind ourselves that God is good. God is loving. God's plans will not fail, even when the people making things happen are not Godly people.

I am a child of God.

I know that God's plan will come to fruition even when it seems like nothing is going right.

I know that God loves me.

I know that God will use trials and difficulties in my life to make me stronger, to give me opportunities to serve in new ways, and to bring me back to Him.


Why, though, does it have to be so hard sometimes?

Memory verses, wk 2

I neglected to post the memory verses from week 2, so I'll post them now.

Isaiah 26: 3-4
The steadfast of mind Thou wilt keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in thee. Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord we have an everlasting Rock.

Trust - it is hard sometimes. I've heard people say - if you can't trust the one who made you, who can you trust? But here's my roadblock . . . I'm not overly impressed with the functioning of my body, ya know? It doesn't hold together well, it has a lot of flaws (heart, gall bladder, hearing, legs diff lengths, etc), and frankly, I have some issues.

So faith takes more than some kind of blind trust in some kind of sugar daddy in the sky. I have to keep my mind steadfast. I have to CHOOSE to trust Him because He has kept his promises . .. on the larger scale. I have to remember that when I am living for Him, things work out better overall than when I'm living for comfort, or ease, or work, or myself.

I have an everlasting (eternal) Rock.