"OK I get it"
Some people say that when God speaks they hear a voice of some kind either in their head or sometimes from somewhere they are not quite sure. Well this weekend I think God was speaking to me in probably the only way that I can understand and that is repetition. I may hear something or even read something but it doesn't always sink in until I see it again in a different way.
This Saturday I was reading Luke 12:22-34, in these scriptures Jesus is talking about money and worldly possessions. Like most people lately my husband and I have hit a little bump in the finance department. And I am a worrier in that when my mind isn't forced to think about anything else I will sit and worry and play bad situations in my head, such as losing the house, losing a job, or car, or what if something bad happens to myself or my husband can we survive.
(Now I am not saying either of those situations are happening, just giving an example of where my mind goes when it is left idle for to long.)
Well so I was reading the passage in Luke and of course I have read them many times in the other Gospels (Matt. 6:25-34)but because of my situation I wasn't truly hearing or paying attention to what I was reading. After I read a couple more chapters I was praying and happened to look at my bookcase (yeah I don't always close my eyes)and a book was kind of sticking out and caught my attention, so I got up and grabbed it. The book was "Battlefield of the Mind" by Joyce Meyers. I had started reading it a few months back but had got distracted at one point and never really picked it back up. But since it stuck out to me and I knew that my imagination was running away from me and that was why I was in a constant state of worry so I started reading where I had left off and wouldn't ya know the scripture references for the chapters I was reading in Joyce's book were the same ones that I had just got done reading in Luke. At first I didn't believe it so I had to compare and had to say "OK God I get it. You will not let me fail, you will take care of me just like you take care of the birds and beautiful flowers."
And then to drive the Word home as I looked out my front door a few moments later as I prepared to go outside a beautiful red cardinal came and perched on my archway leading up my front porch and we just kind of stared at each other. And when I went to reach for my camera to take a reminder picture he flew off. But the imagine is embedded in my memory so that when doubt starts to creep back in I will have a reminder that God will not let me fall.
Today's Reading:
Luke 12-15
Numbers 9-11
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