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Be Still.

 

As some of you may know, this week marks the 7th year anniversary of when my dad passed away.  It was the hardest thing I've ever been through by far, and I am still wondering how that fits into God's perfect plan.  While the pain of this never ends, God's love doesn't end either.

It doesn't matter what life throws at us, we are never without our Father.  This can be a really difficult concept to grasp depending on our different life experiences.  If we have been hurt a lot, trusting God can seem impossible.  When people we love pass on, we wonder if God is really there and why he would do something that causes us so much pain.

He says, "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." (Psalm 46:10)

God does not call us to go crazy trying to figure life out.  He simply calls us to be still.  This time of the year typically calls for stress for so many different reasons.  Trusting is really hard, but the reason for that is because we are imperfect.  We have a hard time trusting because we have a hard time being trustworthy.  Lucky for us, God is not of this world.  He will be there to hold in the pieces when life seems to be falling apart.

The Youtube video I posted above is one of my favorites.  It reminds me that in all that we go through, what we are is pure LOVE by God.  We don't know the answers, and it's likely that we won't figure them out in this lifetime.  However, that's somehow okay.

God truly is PERFECT in all of his ways.  I don't understand his ways and I don't always like them, but at the same time I know they are perfect.

On our own, we are useless, suffering, broken people that are so underserving of anything good.

God changes this for us.  God not only loves us, but He fills us up so our whole being literally IS His love.

Because of this, we are worthy. We are beautiful.  We are healed.

This isn't saying that life is always perfect.  There are so many days that seem almost impossible to get through.  But what it is saying is that throughout all this, we have a Father that we can run to.  God is not the one who causes the pains of life, He is the one that's waiting for us to run straight for His arms when life gets hard.

I'm not very good at being still.  I want to understand why life is hard and how to fix it.  Over the years, God has been teaching me that it's important to just breath and let Him handle it.  He is a good, perfect Father, so He really does have our best interests in mind.

As we are in this stressful time of year, let's focus on being still in Christ.  He's got this under control, I promise.

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