Do you trust him enough to let Him be in control? To give Him everything and lay everything at His feet? Do you trust Him enough to were you pray and wait on Him to be your guide? Or do you just jump and do what your mind tells you to do? Do you trust Him enough to let go of you worries and lean on Him? Do you trust him enough to know that when you walk through fire you will not be burned? Do you trust Him enough to know if you are faithful, He will be there to fulfill your needs?
~From: "Grace For The Moment" vol.2 Max Lucado~
~Enough For Today~-
"I will cause food to fall like rain from the sky for all you. Every day the people must go out and gather what they need for that day." ~Exodus 16:4
God liberated His children from slavery and created a path for them through the sea. He gave them a cloud to follow by day and fire to see by night. And He gave them food. He met their most basic need: He filled their bellies.
Each morning the manna came and each evening the quail appeared. "Trust me. Trust me and I will give you what you need." The people were told to take just enough for one day. Their needs would be met one day at a time. "Just take enough for today." Was God's message. "Let me worry about tomorrow." The Father wanted his people to trust Him.
Do you trust in God to provide for you daily? To lead your way? Are you always worried about the next day? And where you are going to the money to pay that bill? Are you going to get that new job? How is this or that going to work out?
I think what the scripture- Exodus 16:4 is saying, is to trust God and to know that if you are faithful, He is there. It may not happen when you think it should, but if you trust in God, it will happen when His will says it should. Things may be down to the wire, but it is only a test of our trust and faithfulness.
Have faith in knowing that He will carry you through what ever it is you are going through. He will push aside whatever obstacle is in your way. He will pick you up and place you on the other side of that mountain. Whatever trouble comes your way, trust and know that He is there.
"In the time of trouble, He shall hide me in His pavillion." ~Psalms 27:5
I pray to have faith like Paul. He wanted so bad to be a missionary, but for a reason, God allowed Him to be sent to prison. Paul could have given up so easily, but he didn't. He had faith while he waited and trusted that God would bring him to eventually be a missionary. He wrote the Epistle of Philemon, Phillipians, Colossians and the Ephesians. Are you willing to trust God to bring you where He wants you to be? And while waiting, glorify Him?
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