Compassionate Savior,
Your Word teaches that You care for me—You are taking care of me! But when conditions that are troubling me get worse instead of better, it’s easy for me to feel as if You’re letting me down-as if You don’t really care about all that I’m going through. I know You could easily change my circumstances, yet You don’t.
Please help me calm down and stop striving to control things. I really want to give up my futile efforts to think my way through my problems. I long to be still in Your Presence and just fall back into Your strong arms with a sigh of trust.
Even though there are so many things I don’t understand, I can enjoy Your Presence and rest in Your unfailing Love.
Lord, Your ways are mysterious and unfathomable; Your Love is wonderful and never—ending. I will watch in hope for You, because You are God my Savior the God who hears me.
In Your saving Name, Jesus, Amen.
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7
““Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!””
Psalm 46:10
“And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.””
Exodus 33:14
“But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”
Micah 7:7
Excerpt from Jesus Listens by Sarah Young
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