Safe All Along Quotes

“I want to be a steady, unanxious person of prayer not just for my own mental, emotional, and spiritual health but for my family, my community, and all those who might catch a glimpse of Christ through me. I want to live out of the place of peace that Jesus promises.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“To trust Him. To honor Him. Only after I fully trust a good and loving God will I be able to surrender the thoughts and fears that are pulling me apart. I could learn to trust Him more. I could learn to surrender. And He was promising that as I did, I would find the very life and peace I was looking for.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“Or maybe you are grasping for control in some other ways, believing that if you could just get that new job or win the approval of that one person or move to that place, then everything would finally be okay and you could protect yourself and loved ones from the pain that just keeps coming.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“I had determined that in order for myself and my family to be okay, in order for my children to grow strong and healthy and love the Lord, in order for things to go well, I needed to be in control. I had begun to trust my ever-fluctuating emotions over the Word of God. I had begun to believe in what I could see rather than the truths of God’s promises that I could not see. I was trusting in my feelings and my own experiences over trusting in the security of my savior. My thoughts were racing ahead to try to control the future instead of living for today and trusting that my loving Father would take care of the future for me, for all of us.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“Pain and crisis had taught my brain and my heart to anticipate more pain and crisis, and without even realizing it, my thoughts were rushing away from today, into the future, trying to predict and then eliminate any hurt that might take me or my family by surprise again.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“That’s enough. Abigail knows who she is because she knows whose she is. I want to say that, and to believe deep in my bones that it’s true. But I come from a place and a culture where we always reach for more, always look for better. Where accumulation and achievement are valued far more highly than God’s presence and provision, even if we aren’t willing to admit it.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“Jesus says: Do not let your hearts be troubled, because I am your peace. Do not let your hearts be troubled, because in Me, you are whole and complete. Do not let your hearts be troubled, because I have overcome. Do not let your hearts be troubled, because I am your salvation and deliverance and you are sealed for eternity with Me. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid, because no matter what comes, you are safe all along.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“A study of the word peace Jesus uses in His final instructions to the disciples reveals the Old Testament Hebrew word shalom. While in a few cases this word could be used to mean “at rest” or “quiet,” which is what comes to mind for me first when I think of peace, much more often it is used to mean “deliverance” or “salvation.” I spent some time letting that sink in after I first read Jesus’s word to the disciples. When He says, “My peace I give you,” He—our deliverance and salvation—is also saying, I will be with you. He is Immanuel, God with us. He is with us in the rapids. He is with us in the boat. Peace is ours because our deliverance and salvation come from Him. He Himself is our peace. In Greek, this same word is translated eiréné and most often is assigned the meaning “complete” or “whole.”[7] When Jesus gave peace to His disciples, to you and me, might He have been saying that He was making us whole and complete by inviting us into salvation and delivering us from sin and death? Whole and complete, the very opposite of pulled apart and divided?”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“Take heart? John doesn’t record the disciples’ response here, but I know what mine would have been. Jesus has just told them that He is going to be betrayed and killed—that He is “going away.”[4] They have given up their entire lives to follow Him, and He is going to leave? My reaction would have been to panic, but He instructs His disciples to grab hold of the opposite: deep peace and assurance. Jesus isn’t telling them to take heart because it will be easy. The disciples aren’t looking forward to a moment of quiet or a beach vacation, the absence of chaos or trial or the perfect circumstances. They don’t have success, financial freedom, or quiet lives to look forward to. They—we—are to take heart because Jesus, whose peace is not of this world, has overcome this world. There is no chaos or trial or circumstance that does not bow to Him. There is no hardship that we cannot trust Him with. “I am with you always,” He says.[5] As our circumstances change, He does not. This is reason to rest. This is reason to rejoice. This is reason for peace.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“In John 13, Jesus the Messiah washes His disciples’ feet and then, in the next chapter, gives them His longest recorded set of instructions. After sharing all sorts of directives and revelations, He looks at those He loves dearly, the ones who have left their lives and families to follow Him, and says, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”[2] In the very last hours of His life, knowing that He will soon face death, undeserved punishment, cruel torture, Jesus is concerned with His disciples’ hearts. My mind and my body cannot be free from anxiety until I fix my heart on Him. “Do not let your hearts be troubled,” Jesus says, and I confess: My heart is all too often troubled, and I know that yours is too. “My peace I give you,” Jesus tells His disciples. But look a bit earlier in the passage or at the verses right after and we see that Jesus is describing His impending death and warning His disciples of all manner of terrible things that are going to happen to them. He has warned them of their own sin and shortcomings and all the persecution and difficulty they are about to face. He says, “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”[”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“As I shared my anxiety and exhaustion with other women I know and trust, here are some of the things I heard: “I cannot make one more decision.” “I am just always beating myself up.” “I am worried all the time.” “My stomach is tied up in knots just thinking about what is next.” “I don’t think I am really contributing anything.” “I feel like a failure.” “I’m just afraid that nothing is going to work out the way I planned.” “This isn’t how I thought it would go.” “This isn’t where I thought I would be by now.” “I think I have forgotten how to look forward to anything.” “I feel…hopeless.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“God is who He says He is, and when we cannot hold on any longer, He will not let go.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“Even when we couldn’t see it, even when we felt sure the rapids of life would pull us under, we were safe in His hands. “My flesh and my heart may fail,” says the psalmist, “but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”[3] When my strength, my heart, my faith, my whole life seemed to fail, God held me safe.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World

“As much as we sometimes might want to, we can’t just quit our lives, abdicate our responsibilities, and head to the beach or the bathtub.”
― Katie Davis Majors, Safe All Along: Finding Peace and Security in an Uncertain World