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Tuesday... He knows what he is doing.


Psalm 54:1-2 (NLT), "Come with great power, O God and rescue me! Defend me with your might. Listen to my prayer, O God. Pay attention to my plea!"

Tuesday... He knows what he is doing.

Yes, God knows what he is doing!

Now King David wrote over in Psalm 54:1-2 (NLT) this prayer. He was having a tough time so he prayed, "Come with great power, O God, and rescue me! Defend me with your might. Listen to my prayer, O God. Pay attention to my plea!"

Now if we would be in trouble and we prayed this prayer then we have a picture in our mind of how God would solve our problem. We probably would be looking for a warrior or an older person with experience or someone like a mother who really cares and knows how to solve our needs. For sure it wouldn't be a baby.


Our expectations of how God will solve our plea for help doesn't always go the way that God handles it but he knows what he is doing. Yes we need to trust him.

Now think back. Here the Old Testament had been written and then nothing had been said for 400 or so years and then this happened. Yes, we have read this story. We even have a day called Christmas where we celebrate what happened but for so many back then and even some today what happened didn't happen the way they or we believed it would happen so no way do we believe that God will take care of our problem. 

Some call the Old Testament His Story. From Genesis to Malachi God through the inspired writers was preparing the way for the Messiah to come but so many weren't prepared for the way it would happen. Now God wrote through many of the writers glimpses of the way that God's gift was going to come. And now we can look back and see that the plan for the Messiah's coming happened the way God was planning. He was going to come as a baby in a town called Bethlehem. Yes he was telling His Story.

Now that is the way that God works and it isn't always the way we would work. But he knows what he is doing. And today and tomorrow we celebrate that fact. Even in that problem that you are facing, if you turn it over to God and trust him then you will see that he knows what he is doing. Trust him! Just trust him.   

So let's celebrate the birth of Jesus and the fact that God is paying attention to our plea. And that he knows what he is doing! Let's trust him! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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