Then I had a breakdown today.
Yesterday, I felt God's strength well up in me so mightily that I could truly say, "If God be for me, who can be against me?" I believed wholeheartedly that my God is a good God and whatever He wanted in my life was fine by me. My uncertain future was His to direct and I was excited about what He might have in store.
But, today I started to better understand all that could go wrong and how things will probably not turn out as I'd like. Instead of being strong and courageous, I was fearful and discouraged. I fretted, I cried (don't worry - I'm a crier), I came unglued.
As I slowly recover from my emotional collapse, I realize that everything I knew to be true yesterday is still true today. My God is still a good God. My future really is His to direct. And frankly, He can see a lot further ahead than I can.
Maybe you're not as full of faith as I was yesterday, but maybe you also haven't hit the bottom of the believing-God-barrel. Wherever you are on the spectrum of faith, let these verses from Romans 8 encourage you:
If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—
how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?
It is God who justifies.
Who is he that condemns?
Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life
—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or
famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Father God,
Thank you for giving us Your Word, the Bible. Thank you for reminding us that You are a gracious giver - One who didn't even spare His own Son to give us what we need.
Whether I acknowledge it or not, my future isn't mine to direct. Manipulating my circumstances to give me what I think might make me happy will be fruitless if I'm not in the center of Your will for my life.
I want a fresh start so I surrender myself and my future to You.
Help me to remember that even if I've surrendered myself already today, or even this hour, I can do it again, as often as I need.
Thank You that nothing can separate me from Your love.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—
how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?
It is God who justifies.
Who is he that condemns?
Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life
—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or
famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers,
neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us
from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Father God,
Thank you for giving us Your Word, the Bible. Thank you for reminding us that You are a gracious giver - One who didn't even spare His own Son to give us what we need.
Whether I acknowledge it or not, my future isn't mine to direct. Manipulating my circumstances to give me what I think might make me happy will be fruitless if I'm not in the center of Your will for my life.
I want a fresh start so I surrender myself and my future to You.
Help me to remember that even if I've surrendered myself already today, or even this hour, I can do it again, as often as I need.
Thank You that nothing can separate me from Your love.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
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