â Today's Promise: "In this you greatly rejoice, even though for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold (which is perishable) even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory and honorâŠ" 1 Peter 1:6â7
~ Kathy in Missouri
Dear Brides, in whom do you place your confidence? Yourself? Your government? Maybe your church? Your Husband is waiting for you to look for His hand and His face as He guides you through your trials, increasing your faith and demonstrating His amazing love. Trust Him with the process and with your whole heart. He is where your true confidence lies. Jesus is the source of life and the giver of all good things. Put your trust is the One whose love is never ending.
I love to tell people that my Lord is so, so good to me. I am constantly being asked, âHow are you?â And I can truly say that Iâm well, and that my Lord is so, so good to me. Recently trials have caused me to sit with You, my Beloved, and decide where I stand. You are calling me to trust You. Over and over that is Your call, Your promise to me. Trust me. Trust me with your heart, with your life and with your family. You are calling me to BELIEVE your words of love and the promises that are made to me in Your word.
You call me to keep my eyes on You, with blinders to whatâs happening around me. You are calling me to have faith that Your love story to and about me is telling me who You truly are. You are pursuing me. Chasing me down to wrap me in Your love and kindness and enabling me to offer the same to the people in my life. Even the difficult ones. My Love, You are so, so good to me. I will trust You with all my heart. Especially when I donât understand.
The funny thing is that what I understand, is that I donât understand. I run to His words that tell me His ways and thoughts are not like mine. They are higher. Filled with more purpose and promise and power than I know how to wrap my brain around. Resting in this knowledge is faith. Realizing that nothing is going to look like I imagine it will, or I can reason that it might because it make sense to me that God would use A to create B which results in C. His ways are higher that mine. When I hear His whisper, âLook at what Iâm doingâŠâ I know that is my cloud that is small as a manâs fist and I celebrate every single one. I dance in His glory over the goodness of Him, because He is so gracious to show me the ways that He is working.
As I look back at all the times He has covered me in peace when I should have fallen apart, at the times of overwhelming joy that renew my strength and make no sense, at the times I was obedient to His whisper and gained the courage to believe I actually do hear Holy Spirit speaking to me. All of these things grow my faith so that I can please Him. No matter where my path is heading, He is making it straight, so I trust Him with a deep abiding faith. Especially when I donât understand.
I am trusting His words to be alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword. When my head is full of vain imaginations, worries, or fretting over circumstances that hurt or I donât understand, I refocus on a scripture that I am working on memorizing. I am choosing verses that are full of His promise. We WILL reap with shouts of joy, He WILL give me the desires of my heart, He IS my strong tower, He IS my shepherd. And my Beloved cannot lie. So I continue to trust Him with all my heart.
Dear Brides, this is a faith journey. Every time you read His words to you, asking you to have faith, it will mean something different. Let Him pull you higher, closer to Him. Surrender to Him again, and again. It only gets better.
"In this you greatly rejoice, even though for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials, that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold (which is perishable) even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory and honorâŠ" 1 Peter 1:6â7
I need there to be a point to all these trials. I need to know that the pain we are enduring is for a reason. Understanding this scripture and how it is about me, enables me to look for the lesson through hard times. Jehovah Roi does not leave me alone, He is waiting for me to lean into Him to successfully get through these trials that are building my faith. So that I can please Him. And THAT is what I want more than anything in this world.
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