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So you’re sitting there mindlessly twirling your hair while your stressed out thoughts are also twirling through your head.
Your anxiety level is up.
You sigh again.
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Her disheveled hair and dark-circled eyes made it obvious that her Insta-story on Instagram had been made in the middle of the night. A female author I follow there posted a few minutes of herself talking about her struggle to sleep…again. It seems her nighttime fitfulness has become a regular part of life for her. Her hopeful remedy was going to be a series on television and a hot beverage. She asked her viewers who else was struggling to sleep. She said – I think it’s all this unrest around us. So much sickness. So much change even during the Christmas season. I just don’t know how to cope. Then she asked her viewers a question – Please tell me how you cope when you can’t sleep.
I gladly answered her question then, but then I got a fuller answer from the Lord just a couple days later.
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It is so easy for me to let my thoughts run ahead of myself and the situation I’m in and begin to think unbiblical thoughts. I think this must be a pretty common thing because I’m seeing this over and over as I read through the book of Genesis.
Years ago I remember walking along a path in which there was absolutely no light. I had no cell phone flashlight in my pocket to aid my faltering steps. Therer was no moonlight or glowing porch bulb that might remove the terror of my feet. I found myself grappling along, inch by inch, down a concrete stairway and sidewalk in which I made every step cautiously and with hesitation. It was as though my toe would move forward and the rest of my body hesitated to follow, due to fear of what was ahead!
Fear can lead to lots of miserable things in our lives, but it can do the same in relationships. Let’s think about what fear in marriage can do. If a wife is afraid that her marriage might not make it, it can keep that relationship from experiencing the freedom that a simple light would have given me that night on the dark path. What might be the results in a marriage?
I found myself sitting here, hands on computer keys, staring into the screen. How many minutes have passed? My heart has been racing, my thoughts swirling as I try to lasso the questions in my mind and answer them with Truth.
A situation happened that has caused me to run back to the Word that I had just heard preached. It was a simple, yet impassioned message –
“For with God Nothing shall be impossible.” Luke 1:37 Another reminder was –
“We are just pilgrims here. Our time is very short.”
Our time is short.
Our time to make a difference.
Our time to reach the lost.
Our time to lay up treasures in heaven.
This also means that Satan’s time is short and he knows it. He is busy. His our enemy. He hates us. he hates God. He hates Christ. He hates the Truth we are tucking away in our hearts and sharing with others. Why will I waste my time focusing on the problem? Instead I must turn my thoughts to Christ and His Word.
But with God nothing shall be impossible! No conflict, no struggle, no need, no person, no trial, no sickness, no threat is too great for our God! Praise the Lord for that truth that anchors our hearts when they are shaken!
What do you need to trust God for today? Be comforted that nothing is too hard for our God and remember that your time is short on this earth. Rather than focusing on the problem, look at Jesus.
Believing the God of the impossible,
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