MAKE A TURN

1 Peter 3:10-11 NIV For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.”

Do you ever have times when you feel all out of sorts with yourself and everybody else? You can’t really put your finger on what’s wrong but you know your thinking is not right and it affects your attitude. You feel like you’re not getting anywhere? 

It’s a bit like when we’re driving somewhere but we find we’re going the wrong way. So what do we have to do? We have to turn around and head in the right direction.😊

Psalm 123 1-2 NLT I lift my eyes to you, O God, enthroned in heaven. We keep looking to the Lord our God for his mercy;… 

Very often we need to simply turn to God once again, and put our attention on Him asking for His mercy and forgiveness for our grumpy or critical or complaining attitude. We need to reach out to the Holy Spirit and ask Him for His help, His wisdom and His insight as to why we feel the way we do and ask Him to help us get back on track.

So I hope this is an encouragement today to anybody who has been feeling at odds with themselves, or with others or even with God, to turn our eyes back on Him, knowing His love for us has never wavered. We can give it all over to Him and receive His great grace as we trust Him to sort out the things that are causing us upset, and by faith receive His peace that passes understanding as we rest in Him. 

He is a good God, He understands us better than we do ourselves, He has us safe in the palm of His hands and He won’t let us down. He wants us to see good days, so let’s turn away from any wrong thinking, or wrong speaking back to our God, cast all our cares on Him today and let His light shine through once again.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.

Lamentations 3:40 NLT Instead, let us test and examine our ways. Let us turn back to the Lord.

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