Recently a lady was driving along a highway, when a small plane crashed landed and hit her car. She was not hurt, but thankfully she was the only one in the vehicle. If there had been passengers, they would have been crushed.
When you drive a car, you know accidents can happen, but you don't quite expect them to drop out of the sky!
Sometimes it feels like trials in life drop out of nowhere. We don't see them coming. They're completely unexpected. And they can be very crushing. They can crush our dreams, our plans, our relationships, our health and make our life feel like a wreck.
They may be airplane sized or the size of a stone. It doesn't take much to crush us. Even a sentence somebody says to us can shake us.
But just like that lady was kept safe, God keeps us safe when we put our trust in Him. He is our safety. He may not keep us physically safe, but He will hold us in His hands. Everything that comes to us has to first pass through His loving hands.
Psalm 55:22 says, "Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
We need to give the heavy things in life to God. Then instead of our faith being crushed, it will grow and glow.
We need to look up and set our affection on things above. We can't stop trials dropping on us, but we can stay close to God, our safety. We can choose to trust in God. We can choose to pray and give our burdens to Him. We can choose joy and forgiveness.
"Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that i desire beside thee.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
...It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works." Psalm 73:25,26, 28
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