SNAP OUT OF IT!

What questions invade your mind?
How do you replace the panic in your heart with trust?

How do you move on to a level of trust when your frazzled mind is chasing unknowns?
If ever I doubted God’s presence throughout life, my journey has convinced me otherwise.
This past year has been incredibly challenging.
Since my early years, I have learned, although slow at times to recognize the concept that I do not control.
The notion of “Letting Go” or relinquishing the fact that I control life's next chapters is incredibly difficult.  We encounter many disappointing seasons in life.
When frantically calling your earthly lifelines fail and you are left to comfort yourself,  the strains of a familiar hymn linger, (Be Still My Soul) or a call to set aside those things that trouble and let God be God (Ps.46:10, “Be still, and KNOW that I am God.”)
It’s hard to be still!
It’s hard to trust!  GOD IS GOD.
STOP what you are doing and allow God to do what only he can do.
BE STILL
Be still my soul the Lord is on thy side
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain
Leave to thy God to order and provide
In every change He faithful will remain
Be still my soul thy best, thy heavenly friend
Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end
Be still my soul when dearest friends depart
And all is darkened in the vale of tears
Then shalt thou better know His love His heart
Who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears
Be still my soul the waves and winds shall know
His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below
Be still my soul the…

It is so easy to get buried underneath all the trimmings of Christmas but it is all to clear that the reason for the birth of Jesus is clearly stated in 2 Cor.5:15
Often we forget that Christ’s birth was a foreshadowing of things to come because of sin.
So here is what sin does, quoting from Paul Tripp in his
“Come Let Us Adore Him” advent devotional day 9:
“It causes each of us to place ourselves in the center of our worlds and make life all about us.  So we always feel our need to control.  We hate it if we’re not healthy.  We want to be affluent and surrounded by beautiful possessions.  We can’t cope if we’re not surrounded by people who like and respect us.
We want life to be predictable and easy.
We don’t want obstacles in our way or suffering of any kind in our path.
So because we can’t control any of these things, we’re perennially unhappy with life, and sadly, often with God.
You see, our problem is not just that we live in a broken world…We have a glory problem.”