How many of us feel like we go through some kind of darkness whether big or small and wonder how to get out of it? I know that I do and ever time I enter into something difficult a bad grade, a new job, something that I can not control I feel as if I am losing all control and will fall flat on my face. Each time I transition into the new phase I feel like I lose my footing as if all of a sudden God is dropping me off alone to experience the new experience by myself. The truth is that God never leaves us and the new experience is not as bad as we think it will be. Philippians 4:6-7 - "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."We are scared terrified to the point of exhaustion we wonder what happened to the confident woman or man of God and if we ever will return to the person we felt we were before our life changed in some way. But we will if we just come to the cross and lay our selves down at the feet of Jesus like our sister Mary not worrying and being distracted by everything like our sister Martha.
Mary lived a life of pain and brokenness and if you asked her neighbors she probably was not found to be the most delightful girl in the bunch but she got one thing well one very important thing right to put her self worth in Jesus and to not put her worth in her work or other people. Her sister Martha on the other hand cared a lot of what people thought of her she always wanted to be found in the kitchen cooking and cleaning have a good outer appearance and worked constantly so she could fill satisfied on the outside. But she spent so much time worrying about things that were only temporary and in the end did not even matter. Luke 10:38-42 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" "Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her." The Lord would remind me of these passages over and over while I thought about peace. Many times when we do not have peace we are distracted focusing on what we want and not on the Lord and what he is calling us to. The Lord does not want us to do what we think we ought to do which is to worry but only one thing is needed to LISTEN to the Lord. Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." If only we could be more like Mary and I hope over time that I learn to be still more and listen to the Lord then to think too much and work without finding satisfaction. But we will all learn and grow and become more then conquerors.
The truth is that we know that we are going to conquer whatever is put in front of us. Each time I have faced something new I have done well even a grade I was really worried about last year that determined if I was going to graduate or not the Lord provided even more then enough. He did over and above I thought He would. I was scared because I was not in control and so I thought somehow God would not provide and I would fail. But we have a choice to believe and have faith and say the good things of the Lord and meditate on His Goodness or to let our minds wander and explore areas that it should not. Romans 8:6 “The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.” We have a choice to not worry and give it to God. The other day the Lord told me that worrying does not mean carrying. Just because you worry more about a matter does not mean that you care more about it or give you more control over the matter in fact you have the opposite. “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Matthew 6:27. Not only does worrying not do anything but we have God says enough to worry about each and every day. Matthew 6:34 “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” If we are so focused on the worries of tomorrow then we can not appreciate what God is trying to do in our lives that day. God calls us to rejoice and to live and love and dance everyday sometimes we forget to stop working and just start being and let God take care of the rest. Let us all learn to love each and every day, each and every moment and to love everything that God brings our way. Let us seek peace and God rather then trying to control the matter and worry about it.
Psalm 118:24
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.
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