May 14 2008
VOTD Comment 5/14/2008
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.”
Recently, some long-time friends whom I hadn’t for a while came for a visit. Tis friend mentioned that she had noticed a significant chance in the demeanor of my wife and kids, “Your wife seems so much more at peace, and your kids don’t seem as wild and aloof. What has changed?”
As much as I would have liked to take credit, I could not. I simply explained that: In the past we both scrambled around as if we were in control of all things before us and that our hard work alone could control all of our circumstances. Once we realized that it is God who is in control of all things and not us this helped us to “chill out” considerably.
There’s really no point in loosing sleep over things that you can’t control.
Jesus said it best,
“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.
God made us, he knows what we need, and if he says, “Don’t worry” then we need to cheer up, and focus on what’s important!
Father knows best,
~DAC