Look Heavenward
God is exacting in His knowledge.... Not one detail escapes His attention.... He knows everything about us. We are an open book before Him.
Written by Chuck Swindoll, these encouraging devotional thoughts are published seven days per week.
God is exacting in His knowledge.... Not one detail escapes His attention.... He knows everything about us. We are an open book before Him.
When you persevere through a trial, God gives you a special measure of insight. You become the recipient of the favour of God as He gives to you something that would not be learned otherwise.
If you realize that you must give account for every idle word and action when you stand before the Lord Jesus, it does amazing things to your conduct.
Take from us our wealth and we are hindered. Take our health and we are handicapped. Take our purpose and we are slowed, temporarily confused.
Sounds so simple, so right, so good, doesn't it? In our world of more, more, more...push, push, push...grab, grab, grab, this counsel is long overdue.
No matter how well-constructed or long-standing it is, the wall will fall. It may be as intimidating as an angry giant or as silent as thin air and just as invisible, like the stubborn will of a person or the bitter spirit of an individual.
You know what? God personally cares about the things that worry us.
When pressure mounts, when a groundswell of fear invites panic, to whom do you turn?
Unlike the rhetoric of politicians who promise anybody anything they want to hear to get elected, what God says, God does.
It was a wonderful day when I finally realized I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.