"For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith."
~1John 5:4~
I pray this verse & quote from my devotion today, and the excert from Beth Moore's book bless you as they have me . . . .
"Worries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes. "~Corrie ten Boom~
"I've come to the elementary conclusion that, to God, 'together' is the whole point of any process. Before man was created, God just said something & it happened: 'Let there be light' and all. He could still do that. Sometimes still does. But you might notice that alot of instantaneous action ceased after man came along, and obviously on God-purpose. Suddenly God wasn't so sudden. Time became the vechicle for this wonderful thing called history. You can neither rush it nor slow it. All you can do is ride it. History is told through the encounters and experiences of men and women God would call to know Him. To trust Him, often under nearly impossible circumstances. Not on superhumans. Not even on particularly impressive humans. People prone to wander, prone to bruising, prone to doubting, prone to losing. God takes His own sweet time because time is His to take. God created time for man. The Trinity has no such bounds in the eternal state. I think God often ordains a wait because He purely enjoys the togetherness of it. Relationship. Thats one of the best things that can come out of a waiting room. Even the faith in God that an intense wait demands is about relationship. God calls upon us to walk in faith because faith requires a partner to place it in. Sometimes He just misses us. Maybe we could take it as a compliment."
~Beth Moore, "Get Out of That Pit"~
