Good From Bad

Little Thoughts For Big Days

Little Thoughts For Big Days

I so love how the bad things in life can be so divinely rewritten into some form of beauty and something like ‘new life’ can be breathed into the ashes of bad choices or hardships along the way. Don’t you just love how our Sovereign God works the miracles behind the scenes of our chaotic lives, fashioning us, our souls and our issues and complexities into something worthwhile and redeemable? Bad choices? Yeah ~ we’ve all made them at some time or another, but God is faithful and if we turn the heaps of rubble over and relinquish them into His hands, He is so willing to literally grab the miserable mess from us and deal with it, casting it into His “Forever Gone” book. Yeah, even sometimes, He simply allows our schemes to catch up with us so that He can prevent worse things from happening. That’s just His way of proving His unconditional love for His people. You’ll never figure it out, even in all the brilliance you could muster, ‘cuz He’s a thousand miles ahead of you and me in our thinking and reasoning!

So those knee deep consequences? ~ let ’em float into His capable hands. Those worries? ~ give ’em over to the One “Ancient Of Days”, who knows the end from the beginning. Those losses? Well they just might be saving you from future heartache. Who can ever know for sure? Just keep walking through it all with Him ~ whatever the issue, the consequence, the hardship, or the deeper than deep valley and He will make a way and make it beautiful. That’s what He does. I love how He does it.

Beauty From Ashes
Beauty From Ashes

Isaiah 61: 3
To provide for those who grieve in Zion– to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor.

Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Find Rest For The Problem

Little Thoughts For Big Days
Little Thoughts For Big Days

Sometimes it’s just one little thing that haunts you and keeps you from joy in that soul of yours. Sometimes it’s just something small but so overwhelming that it takes over your thoughts, your focus and ~ your life. You can’t live without thinking about it and you certainly can’t live comfortably with it in your every moment. What is it that has you so fixed in it’s bondage that you can’t get free? A health issue, a financial strain, a bad choice, a child, a prodigal, an offence, a job, maybe a relationship or a relative that has your heart and soul so tormented that it seems to stalk you relentlessly, hounding your every day and your every sleepless night? Where does it end and where is relief from the torment? Matthew reminds us of the Lord’s words in Matthew 11: 28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Friends there is no other place to rest your weary, troubled mind but in the Lord’s care! He’s got you and He’s got your problem. So let Him take it and then ~ oh soul, find rest and find that joy that comes in that simple trust and that sweet, child like faith.

Jeremiah 31:25
I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”

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Ordinary You

Little Thoughts For Big Days
Little Thoughts For Big Days

So, you’re just you and in your eyes, just an average soul without any credentials to call your own. Maybe just a me, myself and I trying to make it through each day in one piece. There are no miracles or so it seems. There’s nothing spectacular in life ~ never was and still doesn’t seem to be anything of importance. A job is a job and work is work and the day? Well, it just goes along without drama. There’s just nothing extra to give that spark of motivation or to set you apart from the crowd! Sometimes you wonder where the ho-hum, hum drum will give way and elevate to spectacular and if it ever will…..ahh … deep down in your heart of hearts you know it never will.

The good news is ~ there is good news, all wrapped up in a risen Lord, who met two downcast ordinary disciples on the road to Emmaus. He met them on their journey and kept His identity from them until the proper time. At the breaking of bread together, He opened their eyes and they recognized Him as the risen Lord. Ah yes, God is there in the hum drum just as He always has been. He’s not always spectacular in His approach. He doesn’t always speak through the burning bush, or through the parting of the Red Sea. He doesn’t always turn the water into wine or crush the giant with one small stone. Sometimes He keeps us guessing if He’s really there at all! We don’t always see Him or recognize Him but I love how He speaks in the ordinary incidentals of life ~ through the child, in the grocery store, at the cash counter, at the green light and the red and the caution. Through the driver who just told you off in no uncertain terms. Yes, He speaks if we listen. He does walk with us on our Road to Emmaus. We might not recognize Him in our downcast state of mind and despair, but He walks there and He walks with us through our darkest hour. He’s the lifter of our heads. Let Him lift yours today and perhaps you’ll recognize Him as the risen Lord and the Sovereign God, who cares for all your concerns and provides for all your needs. He speaks to the ordinary in ordinary ways! Let’s be thankful for the ordinary hum drum and be silent enough to let Him whisper to our ordinary souls.

Luke 24: 15
“As they talked and discussed these things, Jesus Himself, suddenly came and began walking with them. But God kept them from recognizing Him.”

Luke 24: 30 – 31
“And it came to pass, as He sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight”

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Peace In The Moment

Little Thoughts For Big Days
Little Thoughts For Big Days

Peace? That unexplainable “Letting it all go” feeling that transcends all understanding. How can we do it? How can we let the big things that exhaust our minds just fall away from our minds without even knowing how? So much ‘stuff’ overwhelms and so many issues are at stake. Still, we are called to peace and trust! Trusting in a God that we can’t see! We need a firm faith both strong enough and transparent enough to “see Him” through all of His past faithfulness as He reached out to us in our past moments of conundrum and confusion. He was there all the time ~ through it all ~ through the thick and thin of it all. He was there when the heart was torn, when the fears where real, when our spirits were crushed and when even the slightest hope had dissipated from our broken world! And now ~ this moment ~ He still is ~ right there at your blind side, ready to give you insight for the next step and ready to give that peace that we will never understand in our humanness. He has that for you too! Step into it and let all the issues go ~ Drop them into His hand and into His care. He’ll take it from there and serenade you with perfect peace! That’s what He does! I love how He does it.

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” John 14: 27

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