It’s easy to start the day off wrong when you wake up feeling terrible and in high pain (result of upping chronic infection treatment + normal symptoms). When experiencing high pain, fatigue, and brain fog, my thoughts quickly become irrational and spiral.
At that point, it’s tempting to take an angry, victim mentality: “I don’t deserve this! I can’t take it anymore!”
In those desperate moments, I have to cry out to the Father for grace to persevere. Except sometimes I wallow in anger, despair, or self-pity instead. I doubt God's love and care. I can't see how anything He is doing is good. In my tears, I question if I can trust my Heavenly Father.
Newton gently reminded me:
“Everything is needful that He sends…”
Do you believe that? Do I?
Psalms echoes with the same truth:
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor.Yes, as painful as it is to write, everything you and I face today is needed. Even chronic pain. Even conflict with a spouse or friend. Even your battle against remaining sin.
No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
Psalm 84:11
Dear reader, God doesn’t withhold anything that is for your good. He is using those difficult moments to make you more dependent on Him. It's not our strength and ability that make us powerful in the Kingdom. It's our helplessness and dependence that make us most useful.
No matter how difficult your day is, land on this truth: God is for you and He is good (Rom. 8:31). Everything He does is good (Ps. 119:68). Your dry spell or trials are not a sign of His hatred, but a loving Father’s care to gently draw you to Him. Your emotions will scream in opposition to this, because when the challenges are unrelenting, it does not feel true at all!
Yet in those moments of despair, repeat the truth to your heart:
Everything is needful that He sends.
No good thing does He withhold.
Everything He does is good.
God is for me.
This is what I need to remember today.
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