Today I'm starting off with a question.
“What are the encouraging words you want to
hear when you’re having a hard day?"
Sometimes things going on around us get us down and really that is only natural.
Sometimes things going on around us get us down and really that is only natural.
One week I had heard about something that really disappointed me. I was hurt and annoyed that when setting standards for choosing a group of people (in which I was not involved) it was obvious that good ethics had not been taken into consideration.
Although I told myself that everything works out for good because God says so in His Word it seems that I didn’t really believe this on that occasion.
The next day this was still on my mind and then everything else I was doing was just not going as planned so basically I was having a "bad day". While driving along in the car I decided to listen to a new CD to take my mind off everything.
One of the tracks started and I thought that it was just horrible but maybe it would improve.
As a song it didn’t get much better but then the words really struck me.
Over and over it repeated
As a song it didn’t get much better but then the words really struck me.
Over and over it repeated
“God is in control, God is in control.”
I played that track many, many times and still I could not say that I liked that song, but God certainly told me then, that He was in control.
There they were, the encouraging words I needed to hear that day. They may not have been what I would have thought I wanted to hear because in all likelihood I would probably just have wanted someone to agree with me about my bad day - you know coffee and sympathy.
But God knows what we really need to hear even if we should already know it.
Let's remember this passage in Luke chapter 12
22 Then He said to His disciples, “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on.
23 Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.
24 Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, which have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?
25 And which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
26 If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest?
27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?
I am so thankful that God knows us better than we do and I am thankful that God was ready to use this song to to tell me what He wanted me to hear.
Do we sometimes need a nudge to remind us of what we already know?
Well I still don’t like the song too much but then God doesn’t have to only use the things we like to speak to us, does He?