Fear not...

This seems to be tugging on me as I stay home from work today...I had someone tell me that I had said something in one of my blogs a long time ago about the fact that we say God never gives us more than we can handle not being quite the case but that He helps us handle what we are given. Was there some scripture that went along with that?

As of late...I have been on a search of Truth.  And I think of the movie A Few Good Men...and I hear "You can't handle the truth!"  Can I?   I have been reading deeper in my Bible...trying to just slowly chew and digest some of the truths that God has for me.   I have started a journal Spirit of Truth in which I put these many morsels of scripture...and it is exciting each day what comes about.  I have been told if you slowly chew your food that it is better for you...you are more satisfied...and so I have began with Psalm 119.  That is actually quite a bit to chew at one verse a day.  Especially when I get lead to so many other places.  I am reading it along with A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23 by W. Phillip Keller.  In which he takes each morsel of Psalm 23...I have enjoyed the book but am only just starting He restoreth my soul...I spent quite some time on He leadeth me beside the still waters...because there he had said read John 14 - 17.   Well when you are chewing slowly...there is a lot to chew in these chapters!

And so I had asked another friend...what scriptures she thinks.   Well she shares that her favorite is Isaiah 41:13.   So I add it to a picture that I take that I had to stop and snap the other night on the drive home...just the way the light seemed to shine on the mountains...all be it a small portion...

And I think...how many times like this picture...we focus so much on the dark clouds...the barren lands...that we lose sight of the LIGHT...of the majesty that is before us!   But the part that just seemed to show me God's part in all this is the next day...reading in Jesus Calling...Enjoying Peace in His Presence by Sarah Young...what do you think her scripture is as she talks of "Whenever you start to feel afraid remember that I am holding you by your right hand.  Nothing can separate you from My Presence!"   As Katie says...Holy Goose Bumps...I suppose some might say...coincidence...but it does not seem coincidence to me...Right out loud Katie!   Right our loud!

So as I was saying...see I chew slowwwwwwwwwwwly....BUT this morning when I was woke up at 4:00 a.m. with the nudge to get up...it had occurred to me as I was thinking of things that I should do in my walk...and this I felt was the God will not give you more than you can handle...  Because in researching...I see no where in the Bible that says God will only give you what you can handle...there are things I feel that God did not stop from happening...but I don't feel He made them happen!   But I have felt His strength...His Presence seeing some endure what no one would think could be endured...and personally I don't think that we are strong enough.  And this comes from one who always said I can do it myself...

And so I include a verse that I was lead to this morning one that I had thought of as belonging to one person but it is for all of us...

And so I think of the many that are battling right now...many against that hated cancer!   Friends....friends of friends...and I think back of my writing this morning...

Perhaps I should put in some context...I have been thinking of how we are all parts of the Body...and I realize in proportion...I am probably just an ass molecule...perhaps some might think what is she talking about...but I am starting to see how I am such a small part of it all..what a minute part I am...and so this morning...

I am but an ass molecule such a minute tiny part of the Awesome--I search for a word..world? Being? Creation? What is this Magnificent Mass that is being created. I am part of the Body...How I act and react affects those "within my gate" until all can ultimately be affected if I am a cancer then I harm the body! Let me be a "Healthy" and by that I mean spiritually, physically, and mentally strong...Let me walk in Thy ways...though at times I fear and there seems a familiarness with Jesus Calling.

And Sarah Young writes:

"When anxiety attempts to wedge its way into your thoughts, remind yourself that I am your Shepherd.  The bottom line is that I am taking care of you; therefore, you needn't be afraid of anything.  Rather than try to maintain control over your life, abandon yourself to My will.  Though this may feel frightening--even dangerous, the safest place to be is in My will." 
 
And I come back...to Psalm 23...

Those in "my gate" you are in my thoughts and prayers as you go about this journey that you travel!  God be with you holding your hand...

lyp