Saturday... We don't always really understand.

There are times in our life that things happen and we hurt, we hurt because we don't always see the potential good in it. We only see the pain, the bad, but as we live through it and look back on it and see where God had a different plan that we did not understand but we then see that it was good, very good.

There is an occurrence over in Matthew 17:22-23 (NLT). Jesus was with his twelve disciples, It says, "After they gathered again in Galilee, Jesus told them, 'The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of his enemies. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from the dead.' And the disciples were filled with grief." And I'm sure that we would too if we had spent three years of our lives following this man and listening to everything he said and watching everything he did. No way was his being killed good news but that wasn't the end of what he said.

I remember the time that Margaret, my wife came home and told me that she had a new boss and it was not a good thing. It was a very difficult time for Margaret This boss was not good news but it wasn't the end of the story. Margaret needed a bad boss in order for her to start looking for another job. And she found the job that she is in now that has made such a difference in our life. There was good in the bad.

The bad news we hear sometimes is good news when God is a part of our life. And maybe what you are going through in your life right now has a good side to it. That is so many times the way God works.

Sometimes we feel like David in Psalm 13:1 where he says, "O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?" He then says in verse 3, "Turn and answer me, O Lord my God. Restore the sparkle to my eyes or I will die." And that is definitely sometimes the prayer that we want to pray.

But he goes on in verses 5-6, "But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me." Even in what we see as bad, there is good. That's how God works.

The disciples didn't really understand what Jesus said. They were basing their grief on what they did understand. He said that he was going to be killed and in no way was there good in that. They just didn't understand what 'on the third day he will be raised from the dead' really meant. That was the reason why he had come to earth, That was the purpose of his living and his dieing. And that was going to change the world and change them.

Here is the key, "But I trust in your unfailing love. I will rejoice because you rescued me. I will sing to the Lord because he is good to me." And he is the same God that these disciples served and he really loved them and he really loves us and he knows what he is doing. And I will trust in his unfailing love.

Yes, we don't always really understand but we can really trust in his unfailing love and that he is good to us even in what we are going through right now. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Monday... He did it by Himself

Isaiah 44:24b (AMP), "I am the Lord, Maker of all things. Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself." Monday... He did it by Himself. Many have a tendency to think very highly of themselves and what they can do. Oh we do have great ability but we are not the source. Yes it is important to have self-confidence but we are limited. The prophet Isaiah in 44:9-10 (NLT) says, "How foolish are those who manufacture idols. These prized objects are really worthless. The people who worship idols don't know this, so they are all put to shame. Who but a fool would make his own god - an idol that cannot help him one bit?" Now later in verse 24 (AMP) he writes, "For the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb says, 'I am the Lord, Maker of all things, Who alone stretches out the heavens, Who spreads out the earth by Myself.'" I love that. "By Myself." Now we do need confidence but we are foolish to ma...

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

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