Refreshing and Reminding

Worry, fear, anxiety are not from God. Don't listen to the lies that cause the negative thoughts, cause you to hide away, cause you to think you can only do it alone. You are not alone. Chances are Jesus is standing right next to you waiting to take your hand and heal it all...but you have to give up and take the offer. What’s really worth living for in the end? And who do you life for?
Evil wants you to be alone, to seek perfection of self, not excellence already planned for your life by God. Perfection is unattainable. Excellence is what we were made for. But this excellence is not of this world.
It is so simple but so hard to grasp…that when we give it to God He will provide. When your life is in sync with the plan…everything else falls into plan. The puzzle pieces always fit when God is putting them together…we can guess and guess at where they fit. Sometimes we figure it out…but more than not we give up. Doing it yourself is exhausting and discouraging. Who wants to live like that? Totally drained, a negative outlook, wondering if it will ever get any better.
You know the answer. You have known the answer. Something inside each of us knows what we really need…but a part also knows what we “want”.
Have you ever considered that living with less is more? That happiness doesn’t mean you must have a college education and make loads of money and be successful. What does success mean to you? We get to disconnect to the excellence of God we aim for this disillusioned view of what life should be. Marriage, a family, a job, a house, a dog, growing old with family around us…That’s nice…and yes I want that. But if God calls me to Him tomorrow…will I not have been successful in the time spent on earth? Each day is separate. Each day is a new day to live, to love, to show Christ to the world. Is that not the whole point? Christ. Show Christ to the world through our lives, our words, and our love. Love that is shaped by Him...In us…through the Holy Spirit.
Life will never be all the best times, but each day can be a Glorious day for God. Even in sickness, poverty, loss, times where we feel like giving up. Look around you, outside the mess, the world still rotates, still grows, still shows beauty in creation. God is with us…even when we think we are alone. Our breath is a gift. Our beating hearts are a gift.
We forget we know only a smidgen of who God really is. The incredible intense heavenly Father of us all…we know what He has done, we are told he is magnificent, powerful, knower of all, with great love. But we cannot obtain the thoughts or knowledge of how true this all is with our human brains. It would be an overload! Words cannot match the truth of it all! We look forward to truly knowing…that alone should be something to wake up to each day happy and excited because someday when this world grows dim…the Light will shine…after the darkness.
And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life.

Deuteronomy 4:31
But even there, if you seek your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to, your God, and listen obediently to what he says. your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won't bring you to ruin, he won't forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them.