Philippians 4:6-7 NLT Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
We can be happily going along when out of the blue we find something suddenly blows up which tries to blow us off course. It seem to come from nowhere but they’re like volcanoes that erupt and have to be dealt with.But God doesn’t want us to allow things to blow up out of all proportion, when He is well able to turn things around for our good if we keep our eyes on Him. Even when they are life changing our God is the Life Restorer, the Healer, the Miracle Worker, the Way Maker and we’ve not to lose sight of that in the middle of whatever has erupted. We have a never ending supply of grace and fresh mercy every morning we wake up.😊
Volcanoes throw up hard rocks and lava that try to smother everything, and we can feel smothered when things get on top of us, but we need to bring those hard things to God to help us. We can drag them round with us if we want to, and even throw some at other people, but God wants us to bring them to Him and leave them with Him.
You may have some hard rocks of unforgiveness, or of feeling hard done by, of resentment or guilt, rocks of discouragement or anxiety, or just feeling sorry for yourself. Those things all weigh us down and God doesn’t want us to carry them around any longer.
Jesus said, “Come unto me all you who labour and are heavily burdened and I will give you rest.” It says in 1 Peter 5:7 NLT “Cast all your cares upon Him for He cares for you.” We have a burden bearer, so why do we insist on carrying them ourselves?
Are you carrying any rocks around with you? Maybe you have a suitcase full of them, weighing a ton. Maybe you’re carrying some other old suitcases as well, full of old rocks?
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