Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.
When we meet very difficult, even overwhelming challenges there is an easy willingness for us to avoid facing up to our commitment to Our Father, to do all that He asks of us. The immediate answer is filled by our thought that tomorrow may present us with an easier task, that does not try our patience to breaking point. Many people demand the easy option whereby they are satisfied by that which taxes them lightly.
The storms that life sends us are not meant to encourage us to hide under the bedsheets as I once did, when a child fearing a particularly nasty squall sweeping up all before it. My bed remained a comforting, and secure hiding place until the tempest passed.
Confronting our fears grows us out of our weaknesses, strengthening our resolve to put right all that needs fixing.
“I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.” ~ Psalm 34:4-5
There are times when I understand that I have no ready answer to the challenge standing before me. I ask The Father for His intervention with a willingness to do all that He asks of me. His remedy fills my conscious awareness providing me with a solution leading me through the dilemma that had stumped me.
“And they went and woke him, saying, ‘Save us, Lord; we are perishing.’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?’ Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, ‘What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?’” ~ Matthew 8:25-27
Trusting that morsel of advice emerging from our innermost thoughts pointing us in a particular direction, requires the faithful person to throw their lot in with The Father leading us out of the storm into calmer waters. The Bread of Heaven is much more than food for our stomach, it is divine wisdom guaranteed to save our life.
Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.~ John 6:32-35
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