When you're overwhelmed with problems, when the way ahead looks hopeless, when your thoughts go in dark circles, then it is time expect something new from God.
God was your Creator when you were conceived. God was there at your birth.
In your helpless dependence, you experienced a mother’s love, that special love that stirred your hunger for a heavenly love.
Then you learned to stand on your own feet and walk.
You went to school, perhaps studied and then got a job, but never forget that you are from God and your life was prepared by God.
No matter how strong and clever you have become, you need to know that your power and success was only possible through God's loving care.
Human strength and material things don’t last for ever.
You may experience painful setbacks. You lose your job. Your marriage fails. Your children go astray and break your heart. You grow old and your strength fails.
You come to a place where you cannot manage your life with your limited health and strength.
How do you react then?
Many become depressed, pessimistic, resigned. Maybe this is you.
If you have not been in these dark places, your time may yet come.
But if life knocks you down, do you have to stay down forever?
Recently I was very down. I went into a dark place, until it occurred to me that God still has plans for me that I can not think of myself.
I have come so far with God’s amazing help. It was not my own strength or ability that brought me this far.
God has led me so far, and will he not take care of me when I grow old?
God has always rescued me with beautiful surprises from impossible situations. If Jesus rescued me before, will he change His mind when I am old?
When Jesus called Peter to leave his job as a fisherman, Peter had to follow a new path, a path that looks very insecure to our natural minds.
Does the way ahead of you look uncertain?
God sees where you are, and he sees the path that lies before you. Nothing is uncertain for God.
God has prepared a bridge that leads from your past to your future.
Would a good engineer design a bridge that leads from one bank to another, or a bridge that does not quite reach the other bank?
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa 55:8-9 NKJ
We need God's loving care. You need to get God's thoughts. You have a Bible, but the Bible is a big book. To reach your destination you need not only a good map, but also a reliable guide.
Jesus did not leave his disciples on earth without help.
We have the best of all guides and mentors, the Holy Spirit.
`Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' Jer 33:3 NKJ
Just as the Holy Spirit was to the prophets in the Old Testament, even so he is our wonderful comforter and guide today. He is the great encourager. He wants to give you new hope.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jer 29:11 NKJ
God was your Creator when you were conceived. God was there at your birth.
In your helpless dependence, you experienced a mother’s love, that special love that stirred your hunger for a heavenly love.
Then you learned to stand on your own feet and walk.
You went to school, perhaps studied and then got a job, but never forget that you are from God and your life was prepared by God.
No matter how strong and clever you have become, you need to know that your power and success was only possible through God's loving care.
Human strength and material things don’t last for ever.
You may experience painful setbacks. You lose your job. Your marriage fails. Your children go astray and break your heart. You grow old and your strength fails.
You come to a place where you cannot manage your life with your limited health and strength.
How do you react then?
Many become depressed, pessimistic, resigned. Maybe this is you.
If you have not been in these dark places, your time may yet come.
But if life knocks you down, do you have to stay down forever?
Recently I was very down. I went into a dark place, until it occurred to me that God still has plans for me that I can not think of myself.
I have come so far with God’s amazing help. It was not my own strength or ability that brought me this far.
God has led me so far, and will he not take care of me when I grow old?
God has always rescued me with beautiful surprises from impossible situations. If Jesus rescued me before, will he change His mind when I am old?
When Jesus called Peter to leave his job as a fisherman, Peter had to follow a new path, a path that looks very insecure to our natural minds.
Does the way ahead of you look uncertain?
God sees where you are, and he sees the path that lies before you. Nothing is uncertain for God.
God has prepared a bridge that leads from your past to your future.
Would a good engineer design a bridge that leads from one bank to another, or a bridge that does not quite reach the other bank?
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa 55:8-9 NKJ
We need God's loving care. You need to get God's thoughts. You have a Bible, but the Bible is a big book. To reach your destination you need not only a good map, but also a reliable guide.
Jesus did not leave his disciples on earth without help.
We have the best of all guides and mentors, the Holy Spirit.
`Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.' Jer 33:3 NKJ
Just as the Holy Spirit was to the prophets in the Old Testament, even so he is our wonderful comforter and guide today. He is the great encourager. He wants to give you new hope.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jer 29:11 NKJ
