Hard Times

Yes, Lord, I know it has been a while since I wrote.  You know the hard times that I’ve been through.  Just too difficult to write.  Despair snuck in and I let it.  Whenever I take my eyes off of You and put them on my circumstances, discouragement and despair are right there hounding me.  Forgive me for allowing them to invade my walk with You.  I’m so grateful that You came to my rescue, assuring me and encouraging me back to Yourself.  In Your great love for me, You are bringing me back from the point of frustration and from the desire to give in to all that is going on in and around me.  In Your great love, You are holding me even closer and showering me with Your grace to go forth.  Again I am humbled beyond words and thankful for Your mercy toward me.  Thank You, my Abba Father.  You are so good to me.  

And so..... You and I continue our walk.  Lead on, O King Eternal.  

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?  “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?  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.  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”  Matthew 6:25-34