OVERWHELMED

Psalm 31:19 NLT How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection, blessing them before the watching world.

We sometimes hear people say they are overwhelmed by peoples’ kindness to them or that they’re overwhelmed with sadness or family troubles, or maybe the business is struggling. Feeling overwhelmed is not unusual but God has His own kind of overwhelming and what it should look like.

God’s idea is to overwhelm us is with His goodness and mercy. Psalmist David said ‘Surely Your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life’. That word ‘follow’ there means it will be in hot pursuit, overtake, overwhelm. We may not realise it but we are being overwhelmed, overtaken by God’s goodness and mercy every day.😊

One of the keys to experiencing God’s ‘overwhelming’ is to be on the lookout for it. Proverbs 11:27 Niv Whoever seeks good finds favor, but evil comes to one who searches for it. We all know people who are always looking for the negative, for the worst to happen, and they find it, but God wants us to look for the good because then we’ll find favour. I know which one I’d rather have!😊

Let’s put our faith and trust in the Lord for the coming days, despite what we may hear or see on the media. In John 17:14 Jesus says we are in the world but we don’t belong to it. The Israelites  were given light in Goshen when the whole of Egypt only had darkness. Isaac sowed seed in famine and he had a 100 fold harvest when the others around him were starving. 

You see God has given us examples to encourage our faith, to know He is still in the business of overwhelming us with His goodness and we have His word on it, so we can start our week with that uplifting thought. Thank You Lord.😊

Psalm 34:8 NLT Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!

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