Let the owner take charge

I was reading in a book about daily devotionals for body, mind and spirit came across this one and liked it enough to post it right here in my blog.

I know to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For, I can do everything with the help of Christ who gives me strength. Phil 4:12, 13, NLT

If you’ve ever felt stress, compare your life with the apostle Paul’s: “ I have worked harder, been put in jail more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. Five diff. times the Jews gave me 39 lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. Once I spent a whole night and a day adrift at sea. I have traveled many weary miles. I have faced danger from flooded rivers and from robbers. I have faced danger from my own people, the jews, as well as from the gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the stormy seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be Christians but are not. I have lived with weariness and pain and sleepless nights. Often I have been hungry and thirsty and have gone without food. Often I have shivered with cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. Then, besides all this I have the daily burden of how the churches get along? (2 cor. 11:23-28, NLT). I was Paul able to hand all this? He didn’t He let God do it!! (Phil. 4:12, 13)

Pretend you are an employee of a large business owned by a single proprietor. You’re working on a multimillion-dollar deal that will either make or break the company. Every decision and action is critical. But you don’t have to worry about it because the owner is in control. You trust that he knows what he’s doing. Everything is in his hands, not yours.
You can have that same peace every day by relying on the infinite power, strength, and wisdom of your savior. You don’t have to be stressed out and sink under the load of your trials and responsibilities- let the Owner take charge!!!!

“When we can…rest confidingly in His love and shut ourselves in with Him, resting peacefully in His love, the sense of his presence will inspire a deep, tranquil joy. This experience gains for us a faith that enables us not to fret, not to worry, but to depend upon a power that is infinite. We shall have the power of the Highest with us…. Jesus stands by our side….As the trials come, the power of God will come with them (Ellen G. White, My life today, p. 184)

Exercise those trust muscles and let God carry the load.
Rise Rafferty

Fitforever by Kay Kuzma
pg. 115 (April 15th )

By the way Dolly, if your writing is SOO bad then why do I have an entire book of nothing but your publishings?!?!? tell me that!! ;) love ya babe!!