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April 25 - August 8, 2023
So many of us are carrying around guilt and shame, despite the truth that Christ has set us free! So many of us are telling ourselves stories of how terrible we are, how dangerous life is, and how badly we have failed. Simultaneously, many of us are trying to tell the world the story of how great
...we are, how great our life is, how everything is okay. How we've got it all under control. No wonder we feel as if we're constantly being pulled apart!
Gather some people who know you really well, who have lived the story with you. Share with them vulnerably the guilt or shame you are carrying. Likely, they remember the story a little differently.
“Lord, You are trustworthy”
Trust precedes peace.
Can we say that the Lord has carried us and also say that we wish things might have turned out a different way?
it’s time to wash your face. It’s time to pull out a song of ascents and worship God, even in the middle of the journey, even when you are still on the way. What can you rejoice in here and now, even if your situation or circumstance isn’t what you had hoped it would be?
Planting is never for nothing. Planting says we trust our God. Planting is how we dwell. Planting leads to peace.
Even the heaviest and hardest things will ultimately bring about peace when you are walking in obedience to Him.
Generosity—with our time, with our things, with our homes, in our actions, in our service—shows our deep trust in God. As we share what we have, we say that we trust Him to provide all that we need. As we give of our time, we say that we trust Him with the things we may have to leave undone in order to listen well, love well, and invest our time in others. As we give of ourselves to our neighbor, we say that we trust Him to be our strength and to equip us for this service.
God’s finished work in the garden was good, His finished work on the cross was good, and His finished work in eternity is good.
John Piper (@JohnPiper), “Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have,” Twitter, March 1, 2016, 6:04 a.m.,
