I’ve heard it said that we trust God with salvation because we know deep down that there’s really nothing we can do about it. But, that we take every day matters into our hands because we think those are more manageable.
‘Assurance of salvation goes far…It enables you to feel that the great business of life is a settled business, the great debt is a paid debt, the great disease is a healed disease, and the great works a finished work; and all other business, diseases, debts and works are then by comparison, small. In this way assurance makes you patient in tribulation, calm under bereavements, unmoved in sorrow, not afraid of evil tidings, in every condition content, for it gives you a fixedness of heart…’ J. C. Ryle
I spend many days problem solving in my head, thinking rather than praying. And I must admit that as I think through budgets, my marriage, raising children, you name it, I rarely do so within the context of first remembering that my biggest problem in life has already been solved. Strange that I could trust God to create the means by which my sinful soul could have communion with Him for eternity, enjoy Him here on earth, and share Him with others both here and there…and yet doubt that He could also orchestrate the ins and outs of my being a wife, mother, daughter, sister, cousin, employee, and friend.
‘You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.’ Isaiah 26:3
What ‘manageable’ tasks do you take back into your own hands? How do you bring yourself back to your senses?
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