God IS in control

I've said this a million times, but God really does use the things around me to speak to me. I will pray and ask for God to speak and then the next day I'll open my devotional or watch a program or get an email that speaks right to the situation.

Today's devotional was this:

But Job replied, "You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?" So in all this, Job said nothing wrong. Job 2:10

Keeping our feelings in check requires effort; it's a lot easier to get angry, strike back, and respond in other negative ways to a situation we perceive as cruel or unfair. Experience has taught me that there is little or no lasting satisfaction in such a reaction.

Don't waste precious time and energy on anger. ------SBT Excerpt taken from A Cup of Comfort Women of the Bible devotional

Then I get a Women of Faith devotional and this is what today's said:

God Rules
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.”
-Isaiah 30:15 NIV

God is sovereign- not just a little bit sovereign, but utterly and completely sovereign. He controls everything. Not just some things…everything. Plain and simple: he rules.

There is a settled peace deep within my soul as I realize I am not in charge of my life. I’m responsible to that life, but I don’t have the power to orchestrate the events in my life any more than I have the power to make the moon appear twice every month instead of once. What I can do is enter into a partnership with God about my life.

In that partnership, I know I’m to daily seek his guidance and wisdom. I also know I’m to conscientiously live my days according to the practical principles he has laid out for me in Scripture.

God’s sovereignty will always hold levels of mystery for me, but that mystery actually feeds my peace. Why? Because I have faith in him. He has a good track record. I like it that he knows more than I do. I also like his style. He’s creative, has flair, and does the unexpected. But coupled with that drama and flair are his tender love and regard for me.

-MARILYN MEBERG (God at Your Wits’ End)

Again He lets me know that He knows what's going on and He has everything under control even though I feel as if everything is out of control. Maybe my perception is right....my life is out of my control, but luckily God is there to make it all run as it should.

Had we made a mistake?

Getting the mail is never a fun time around here. Day after day, bill after bill it can be very overwhelming. Diapers, formual...three little mouths to feed. Was I wrong? Was it a mistake to have had the baby in such times of need? I actually wondered this. Should we have waited to have another baby? Was the timing wrong? These are the lies that raced through my mind.

Then God reminded me. He reminded me that He knew her before she was born. He knew her before I was born. He created her for such a time as this. That He knew her days. He knows the plan for her life. She had arrived at the most perfect time. She was made to live now.

Looking at the sitaution from my eyes it seemed as though I could have made a mistake. How could we bring another person into the world when we were struggling so much to just get by? But God sees the whole picture. He sees the whole story. He knows that this is her time. And as I stared down at her little face, I knew in my heart that He is right and He will provide. How could something so beautiful and so perfect be a mistake? She completes us. We are all head over heals in love with her. She was given to us as a gift. We all at different times have been caught with love in our eyes just staring at this little life thinking about what a blessing she is.

I have thought about the long road that led to her arrival. The loss of two baby's, the longing to have another child. And now here she is. Not a minute too soon, not a minute too late. She was right on time because God knew her days. God knows best and He will provide.

Isaiah 49:1 Listen to me, you islands;
hear this, you distant nations:
Before I was born the LORD called me;
from my mother’s womb he has spoken my name.


Psalam 139:13-18
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.