Post by Cindy on May 31, 2016 10:33:35 GMT -5
Something happened this week that just totally floored me. To give you some background so you can understand, I have to use disks called xylimelts that stick to the inside of my mouth in order to sleep at night due to Sjögren's disease. It causes my mouth (and everything else) to get so dry that my tongue will become cracked and bleeding and often stuck to the roof of my mouth if I don't use the disks, and that's with waking up constantly about every hour to take a sip of water. So the disks have become vital to me. So much was going on this past week however, and I wasn't feeling well anyway, that I forgot to order more of them in time so that I wouldn't run out. When I did order them, it looked like I was going to have to live through 5 or more days without anything to help me. I sent up a quick SOS to the Lord, telling Him that I realized it was my own fault and felt bad asking Him to bail me out of something I did myself, but if He didn't mind, I'd sure appreciate it if He would get those things to me before I ran out of them. I honestly didn't expect Him to. He's given me more actual outright miracles then anyone has a right to expect, and I figured it was time I learned to take care of things like this without counting on Him to bail me out. I cut back on the disks, using only one instead of the two I need hoping to at least buy myself a few more days with them, but even with that, I'd still go without a few days anyway. The order said they wouldn't arrive until between June 7th and 11th and I only had a few of them left. Out of desperation I clicked on the "track your package" link for the 3rd time last night. Every time it had said the same thing, but last night it was different. Last night it said they would arrive today! I just checked again and it says they're currently in my mailbox, so hubby will bring them in with him when he gets home from work! No one but God could do that, and I don't think anyone but God would do it. I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes, just thinking that He loves me so much and He cared and didn't want me to have to go without those disks! How much more proof of His love can we ask for? Even "little things" like this are not beneath His concern.Truly He knows everything about us and keeps His eyes on us always, watching over us, to help us, guide us, and show us His amazing love!
““Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:25–33)
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” (1 John 3:1)
Edited to add: Did you notice how easily I fell into the trap of thinking that I shouldn't rely on God for little things, or things that I'd caused to happen myself? The world has brainwashed us with the idea that "God helps those who help themselves", which is the opposite of what God tells us. Plus, we tend to want to be independent anyway - after all, we've been taught since we were toddlers to learn to do things for ourselves. So falling into this trap is very easy, even when you know better. Even after all these years, you can see that I still tend to fall into this trap at times, especially if I haven't been feeling well or am under a lot of stress. The Lord tells us that He wants to be part of everything in our lives... every little tiny detail. There's nothing to small or insignificant to Him, because He loves us so very much. Forgive me Lord, and help me to always remember that everything about my life is important to You.
““Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” (Matthew 6:25–33)
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” (1 John 3:1)
Edited to add: Did you notice how easily I fell into the trap of thinking that I shouldn't rely on God for little things, or things that I'd caused to happen myself? The world has brainwashed us with the idea that "God helps those who help themselves", which is the opposite of what God tells us. Plus, we tend to want to be independent anyway - after all, we've been taught since we were toddlers to learn to do things for ourselves. So falling into this trap is very easy, even when you know better. Even after all these years, you can see that I still tend to fall into this trap at times, especially if I haven't been feeling well or am under a lot of stress. The Lord tells us that He wants to be part of everything in our lives... every little tiny detail. There's nothing to small or insignificant to Him, because He loves us so very much. Forgive me Lord, and help me to always remember that everything about my life is important to You.
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