Yes I do hate roller coasters. I don't like the feeling that I am not in control, I don't know the speed it travels at, don't know how high it is going to take me, and most of all I hate the downward descent. I intensely dislike the feeling in my tummy as it comes downwards and I don't know how low it is going to hit before it goes back up again.
These days it seems I am on a roller coaster of emotions, cliché I know, but can't find a better way of describing it. Up one moment and then crash. And yes the feeling is awful, and I have no control on the depth of the fall. No internal strength to go back up again - nothing inside of me.
But I know the One who is in control. I look in His Word all I see is The Rock, A Path, the Way. Very firm, solid, immovable, unshakable, eternal, unchangeable - no roller coaster.
Words from my Pastor come to mind - our emotions are a good caboose but a bad engine.
So today I choose to believe God's Word and His promises, not my emotions.
I choose to trust for today, to believe that His mercies are new. Yesterday's crash is over, I am back up on solid ground taking one painful step after another, but on solid terrain.
I am in Psalm 25:
Show me the right path, O Lord;
point out the road for me to follow.
5 Lead me by your truth and teach me,
for you are the God who saves me.
All day long I put my hope in you.
6 Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love,
which you have shown from long ages past.
Lord I praise you for you are my Rock, You are worthy of trust. You are the Truth, the Way. I praise you because you are my Saviour, Redeemer and Friend. I praise you because you are a God of compassion and You are Love. Your Word never fails and your promises are true.
Lord, I am trusting you for today. Show me the way I should take when I am faced with my own emotions, Give me your Word that alone can sustain me. As I go through seemingly mundane and mindless tasks, work that does not make sense at this time, help me to be conscious that You are with me.
Lord forgive me for the times, I doubt and question. Forgive my unbelief and my short term view of life. Forgive me for the times I stubbornly get back on the roller coaster and leave your Path.
I thank you Lord for the many blessings you have give me. I thank You that You wait patiently and never chide me when I run away from You. I thank you for dear friends that You have placed in my path who are constantly interceding for me, always ready to take a phone call and to pray. Thank you for my loving daughters and the marvelous work you have accomplished in their lives.
I thank you Lord for showing me yesterday that I can look at the 404 North as the entry point to heaven for my darling Julius and not as a place of dread and death.
I choose You today My Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
In Your matchless, precious and Holy Name I pray. Amen.
These days it seems I am on a roller coaster of emotions, cliché I know, but can't find a better way of describing it. Up one moment and then crash. And yes the feeling is awful, and I have no control on the depth of the fall. No internal strength to go back up again - nothing inside of me.
But I know the One who is in control. I look in His Word all I see is The Rock, A Path, the Way. Very firm, solid, immovable, unshakable, eternal, unchangeable - no roller coaster.
Words from my Pastor come to mind - our emotions are a good caboose but a bad engine.
So today I choose to believe God's Word and His promises, not my emotions.
I choose to trust for today, to believe that His mercies are new. Yesterday's crash is over, I am back up on solid ground taking one painful step after another, but on solid terrain.
I am in Psalm 25:
Show me the right path, O Lord;
point out the road for me to follow.
5 Lead me by your truth and teach me,
for you are the God who saves me.
All day long I put my hope in you.
6 Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love,
which you have shown from long ages past.
Lord I praise you for you are my Rock, You are worthy of trust. You are the Truth, the Way. I praise you because you are my Saviour, Redeemer and Friend. I praise you because you are a God of compassion and You are Love. Your Word never fails and your promises are true.
Lord, I am trusting you for today. Show me the way I should take when I am faced with my own emotions, Give me your Word that alone can sustain me. As I go through seemingly mundane and mindless tasks, work that does not make sense at this time, help me to be conscious that You are with me.
Lord forgive me for the times, I doubt and question. Forgive my unbelief and my short term view of life. Forgive me for the times I stubbornly get back on the roller coaster and leave your Path.
I thank you Lord for the many blessings you have give me. I thank You that You wait patiently and never chide me when I run away from You. I thank you for dear friends that You have placed in my path who are constantly interceding for me, always ready to take a phone call and to pray. Thank you for my loving daughters and the marvelous work you have accomplished in their lives.
I thank you Lord for showing me yesterday that I can look at the 404 North as the entry point to heaven for my darling Julius and not as a place of dread and death.
I choose You today My Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
In Your matchless, precious and Holy Name I pray. Amen.
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