Just the other day, after talking to God and thinking about the things He's been doing in my life, I went to read the Bible. Well, I wasn't sure exactly what to read, so I just opened it to a random place, and what do you think was the passage? It was Romans 5. So I began to read and found that it wasn't random after all. It was exactly the place that God had picked out for my day. I read chapters 5-8 and that was exactly what I needed for that day. It's amazing how things that seem to be random or by accident are really exactly what God has planned; even the little things. My God cares for every aspect of my life and that is such an encouragement to me. He has my entire life planned out, but only reveals it to me day by day.
Proverbs 16:3 Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts(purpose/plans) shall be established.
Matthew 6:25-34 25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, What ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
All day I've been telling myself that opening my Bible to a random place wouldn't be what I needed. . . then I read this.
ReplyDeleteGod truly had you write this, and I speak for many when I say that it's touched my life.
Thank you for listening to the Lords direction, Ben.
Continuing to pray for you