"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. {He has made everything beautiful in its time.} He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it."
-Ecclesiastes 3:1-14

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

He's got the whole world in His hands


A great status by one of my friends today,

"Sometimes you have to stop trying to figure it out and know that God already has."

Thankful for the reminder to take care of my responsibilities, but then ultimately rest in God's provision.

Grateful that I don't have to have life all figured out and that when surprising events occur I know the God behind them.

He's got the whole world in His hands.

[That includes my little life fraught with confusion, burdens, and uncertainty].

My response?

Take a deep breath.

Relax.

Trust.

Know that He is in control.

And live accordingly.

[Matthew 6].

"If we are men in Christ, let us believe in our God and leave the governance of the great world outdoors, and of the little world within our own gates, to the Lord God, our heavenly Father, who will surely cause all things to work together for good to them that love Him!"
-Charles Spurgeon
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  1. A Worker at HomeJanuary 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM

    I really needed to read this!! Thank you so much Mollie for the reminder!!

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