In case you missed it, today is August 1st. If
you looked at a calendar or got on facebook today, I’m sure you’ve been
informed of this fact J What
things do you have coming up this month? I’m finishing a few more days at work,
looking forward to time with all my favorite people, moving my brother out to
school, heading back to school {for 1 more semester!}, and…you get the idea.
Days fill up quickly. My worries {about “big” and “small” things} can pile up,
too.
A few days ago, I came across this on Pinterest…
My first thought was “BOOM” {as in, “wow, that’s…convicting.
I don’t like how much this resonates with me”}…I’ll be honest, I have struggled
and do struggle with this very thing. So, I went in search of Truth.
Matthew 6:34 says “Therefore, do not be anxious about
tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is
its own trouble.”
Do not worry.
1 Corinthians 2:9—“But, as it is written, no eye has seen,
nor ear heard, not the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those
who love him…”
His ways are better than ours. We can't ever imagine what He's got in store for us.
Jeremiah 29:11—“For I know the plans I have for you,
declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and
a hope.”
He’s got the perfect plan.
Romans 8:28, 39—“And we know that for those who love God all
things work together for God, for those who are called according to his purpose…For
I am sure that neither death nor life, not angels nor rulers, nor things
present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else
in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ
Jesus our Lord.”
Everything is for our good. Nothing can separate us from His love.
Psalm 126:3—“The Lord has done great things for us; we are
glad!”
Great things. Not just good things.
In other words, there’s ZERO reason to worry. Ever. At all.
{These verses are just a snippet of what I quickly came up with—there
are SO many others!}
On this first day of August, I’m going to remember this:
God has the BEST plan for me, and it’s so much better than
what I would come up with anyway! He’s promised to be with me, and use every
single day and every single circumstance to make me more like Him. And that’s a
beautiful thing.
