Friday... This is what He is doing.

David in Psalm 7:9-10 (MSG) says, "Close the book on Evil, God, but publish your mandate for us. You get us ready for life: you probe for our soft spots, you knock off our rough edges. And I'm feeling fit, so safe: made right, kept right. God in solemn honor does things right."

Please understand that what is happening around you and in you is being used by God to make you fit for life. Yes, Evil is all around you but God is showing us what He wants to to do and He is preparing us to fight against Evil in our lives. He knows our soft spots and He wants to knock off our rough edges.

Someone asked a sculpture as they were looking together at a big rock, "How do you make an elephant out of that?" And the sculpture said, "You knock everything off of it that doesn't look like an elephant."

Jesus is our example in how to live life and God in looking at us and through life He is using everything He can to knock off everything that doesn't look like Christ. That is what He is doing in your life.

We don't know what is ahead, but He does. And He is bringing things into our lives to make us fit and safe and made right and kept right. It is all about making us fit and like Christ.

So when things are happening around you that you do not understand then do what verse 17 (NLT) says, "I will thank the Lord because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High." He knows what He is doing. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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