16/08/2018
A message from Sam
Through every season, in every trial, God is still God, and He is still good.
It’s so easy for us to become overwhelmed or stressed about what is going to happen next, and it’s easy for us to forget one thing in particular, which I have come to realise is the most important thing of all, and that is that God is in every situation, and His plan is good for your life, it is to prosper you, not to harm you. Just because His plan for your life is good, that doesn’t mean everything that happens to you is going to be wonderful. There will be trials and there will be seasons where giving up seems by far the best option, but it is through these times we need to remember that God is above all these things, He is greater than our struggles.
The mantra I live my life by is that God knows what He is doing, even if I can’t see how it’s the best thing for my life. For me, this means that I don’t worry or stress about the future because I leave it in God’s hands, knowing that whatever happens, God is going to use it for good so that in the end, His will and His purpose will be done.
Matthew 6:25-34 says this:
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you — you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
What I want to leave you all with is the knowledge and the assuredness in your spirits that God is good despite what happens, and that His plan for your life is good. So trust in Him, seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and He will take care of you, He will provide you with all your needs, and His plan will come to pass in your life