Today is the tomorrow that you were so worried about yesterday. How did your worrying hold up against God’s redeeming grace and his tender mercies, that are new every morning and sufficient unto time, place, and purpose?
The world is not going to meet you on your terms so you might as well cut the drama, and find out what you need to do to meet the world on its own terms.
I discovered a long time ago that this thing, called life, is bigger than anything I can muster up on my own. So I decided that rather than mess up a good thing, and my life is a good thing, that I might as well send it back to the maker for maintenance. It’s like Joyce Meyer says, “If you got a Ford car, why would you send it to Volkswagon when something goes wrong with it? You’ll send it to Ford. Why? Because since they made it, they would know the complexities of the car, and what needs to be done to fix it.” That is why when our car, or any manufactured thing, is broken beyond our understanding, the first thing we do is return it to the maker. The same should be true with all the elements of human existence. That’s all that God is expecting of us. That when the circumstances of life are more than we can manage, rather than take a high dive off a short pier or a long walk off of a short plank, we turn the situation over to him, because he knows what needs to be done to fix it. He doesn’t want us passing it off to Joe Shmoe, aunty Mary, uncle Felix, the soothsayer, the do-gooder, or the obeah man. He also doesn’t want us to blame baby Sally, cousin Suzie, or the fogies, tell Peter, Paul, James and John, hang Judas, borrow from the Andersons to keep up with the Jones, or rob Peter to pay Paul. He want’s us to bring it to him – in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, believing that whatsoever he promises he is able to deliver, wheresoever he leads, he is able to protect, whatever he permits, he is able to out perform, and that “the effective fervent prayer of righteous man availeth much.”
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