So many hard things. People I love are walking through such pain. Things have happened in the life of our family that hurt so deeply. I don’t understand. I can’t write the devotional and tie it up in a pretty bow.

I’ve sat in a puddle of tears— so many cares to cast on Jesus.

I remember, once again, that He is the Rock who is higher than I, the steady in the storm, the One who beckons me to turn my eyes to Him.(Ps 61:12)

He calls me to remember, that He is a faithful shield about me. He is the lifter of my head. (Ps 3:3)

My help has always come, not from my own strength, but from the Lord the maker of heaven and earth. (Ps 121)

Not I, but Christ in me.

He is the strong tower where I can run again and again. (Prov18:10)

I’m so thankful for the prayers of so many of you— many going through your own gut-wrenching troubles.

I’m so thankful for those prayers to remember—

Our Father hides me in the shelter of His wings. (Ps 91:4)

He stands so close, and so close to those I love, He is a shadow over us. (Ps 121:5)

He makes His presence known to me and floods my soul with peace that makes no earthly sense. (Phil 4:7)

Though I daily walk in the valley of the shadow of death, because of Him, I can fear no evil. (Ps 23:4)

My cup overflows with peace and hope and joy –because He alone is my portion. (Lam 3:24), He is my righteousness (Phil 3:9) , He is my way everlasting (Ps 139:24).

Though trouble surrounds me each day, though the evil one, like a prowling lion, seeks to rob, kill and destroy; God, in me, is stronger. (Matt 6:34, I Pet 5:8, 1 John 4;4)

He goes before me. He fights for me. (Deut 31:8, Ps 18:47)

He calls me the apple of His eye. He knows the way I should take. He knows every thought before a word is on my tongue. (Ps 17:8, Prov 3:6, Ps 139:4)

He beckons me to cast my cares on Him. Again and again. (Phil 4:6-7)

He never sleeps. He never slumbers. He never tires of my prayers. (Ps 121:4, Ps 116:1-2)

He hears me. He sees me. (Ps 34:15)

Though my foot stumbles, even when I’m faithless, He is faithful. (2 Tim 2:11-13)

He never leaves. He never forsakes. (Deut 31:6)

He is power, and no weapon formed against me shall stand. (Is 54:17)

Though I fail Him, He has never failed me. (Ps 73:26)

His mercy floods over me. His forgiveness washes me again and again. (Ps 103:10-12, Mic 7:18-19)

He patiently beckons me to let go of my cares, my worries, my stubborn desire to control that which I can never control. (Prov 16:9)

Once again, He reminds me of the sweetness of surrender, in the letting go, in the dying to self, that it is there, that I truly live. (Gal 2:20)

And so, before the day breaks, I lay my burdens down again –reminded that I am a child of the Most High.

Because I am a child of the Most High, I can walk in strength that is far greater than my own.

And so can all who call upon the POWERFUL NAME of the Lord!

And that is no small thing…

Not I, but Christ in me.

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