Jesus Calling

Last fall I purchased an app for my Nook based on a book by Sarah Young entitled "Jesus Calling" and I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in improving their relationship with the Lord.  I also need to thank Tina (you know who you are) for turning me onto this book/app.  Because I don't want to have to look up the scriptures referenced at the bottom of each day's entry I like the app because it goes beyond citing the scripture reference, it prints the entire reference out for me.  This way I can avoid the confusion of having 2 books in front of me and, if I want to go deeper into the scriptures I can pull out my bible and research further or use one of the bibles on my Nook.  I don't know if this is an ADD thing or simple laziness.  Don't care.

What I DO care about is how this simple app/book has completely overhauled my relationship with the Lord!  Prior to Jesus Calling I had many daily devotionals by noted Christian scholars and ministers but if I looked at them once a month I was doing good.  Jesus Calling brings about an intimacy with the Lord I never had or even knew I could have.

This past week I've been struggling with "growing up" and all that implies.  I wanted to no longer make decisions for and about my life.  I wanted someone else to do it.  It was overwhelming me.  I even read Jesus Calling and somehow that didn't work, or so I thought.  I IS VERY SCARY to completely place your life in God's hands and not try to control circumstances.  I often feel like that lady in the life alert commercial.
But since I've actively given my life over to the Lord I've seen more miracles happen than a person has a right to.  Yet somehow my humanness strives to wrench control back from God.  Why can I be so stupid?

Deep inside I know that when I'm in God's hands my life will run sooooo smoothly and worries will cease.  Overwhelming peace and joy will fill me.  I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE yet I struggle to be independent.

So from now on when I fret and worry about the future, I'm just gonna say out loud "God's got it all figured out for my good."

So for today I'm grateful for:

1.  God controlling my life.  I really don't want to grow up anyhow.
2.  God's peace
3.  God's joy
4.  God's salvation
5.  God's miraculous provision.  (ask me about it sometime - I like bragging on God)

Later,
Jan