DON’T OVERTHINK IT!

Matthew 6:34 NIV Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I wonder if you're like me because I can overthink a bus ticket! My daughter will sometimes say to me “You’re overthinking it mum!” and I’m glad she does because it helps me realise what I’m doing.😊

The trouble with overthinking is it takes us places we really didn’t need to go, where we weren’t supposed to go! For some reason we think we know what other people are thinking about us, when they’re probably not even thinking about us in the first place!😊

God reminds us to cast all our cares on Him, not to lean on our own understanding, not try to work everything out in advance. At the end of the day we can’t do anything about other people’s reactions or actions and they are God’s responsibility not ours.

Then there are the times when we overthink and try to do what only God can do and it’s so freeing to know God actually wants us to take our hands off and let Him do things His way without our so called ‘help’!😊

God has promised us grace for each day, for every situation. Maybe right now you ‘think’ you need to be involved or ‘think’ you should be helping in some way, but God will let us know if He wants us to do something and if He doesn’t then we can mind our own business because we probably all have enough things in our own lives to handle anyway!😊

So next time you catch yourself overthinking what you said and did, or what they said and did or what might or might not happen, or what you should be doing, or not doing, just take a breath and stop for a minute to remember we’re in God’s loving hands. Our God is merciful and if we’ll give it all to Him, He can sort everything out if we’ll only let Him!

So, maybe this is a good moment to commit our thoughts to the Lord and ask Him to help us stop overthinking everything, don’t you think!?😊 Amen.

Have a blessed weekend.x😊

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NOTHING IS LOST

John 6:12 NKJV So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.”

We all lose things from time to time and it’s usually my phone I can’t find! For others though it can feel like we’ve lost so much. It might be our health, our life companion, our job, even our hair, or maybe you lost your temper!😊

But Jesus is showing us something here in the feeding of the 5,000 which is worth another look. He didn’t want anything to be lost, nothing to be wasted, nothing left behind. He is saying to us today that every fragment of our lives is important to Him, every memory, every experience whether good or bad, every detail is not lost in His panorama of our lives because He sees the end from the beginning. Nothing has taken Him by surprise and if it matters to us then it’s important in God’s eyes too.

Maybe your life feels fragmented or like you’ve been left behind but know this, God has every bit of your life in the palm of His hand and when the time is right He will bring it all together in a way that will bless you and others.

There are countless testimonies of people who have seemingly lost so much but God gave them new purpose and He used their experiences to help others.😊 

Notice Jesus told His disciples to gather up the fragments that remained, and so He’s saying bring all the fragments, all the pieces of your life, no matter how they may appear to you, and ask Him to make sense out of them and use them for His glory, to bring something worthwhile out of them. 

Be encouraged today because He’s the God who restores our soul and who makes us whole. All the fragments of our lives matter, so don’t feel like any of it has been wasted because God doesn’t waste anything. Instead, gather them up and give them to Jesus and know He still has a purpose for them all, so that ‘nothing is lost’. In Jesus name. Amen.😊

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