Be not afraid.

I read somewhere that The Bible mentions 365 times, "DO NOT BE AFRAID". That would be one for every day of the year. I know very well, that when trying times come, it is so easy to forget the Lord said that. It's so easy to become overwhelmed with what this world has to offer. We are faced with death, disease, loss of jobs, home foreclosures, fire, famine, car accidents, violence, and about a thousand other things, that mess up OUR plans. We plan for happy marriages, only to have those cut short. We plan our careers, only to lose our job. We plan for large families and are faced with infertility. We plan to watch our children grow, only for the Lord to take them HOME sooner than we planned.

In all that, it is sooo easy to question, what God is doing. We are human, and we don't understand it all. If we did, I believe it would make God smaller in our eyes. But the truth remains through it all...that God is God, and the same through it all. He is the same, in the famine, as He is in the feast. He loves us the same, and watches over us the same. He expects our trust, and more importantly He deserves it.

I need to remember that in the big and the small things, and lately I have struggled there. When we can't get the house we want. When my husband hasn't gotten the promotion he needs, when we can't seem to have more children, when money is short, and cost is high...that it has NOT taken my God by surprise, and He expects me to TRUST, and to NOT be AFRAID, or WORRIED...for my ticket is punched, my destination is set, and the Lord, is at the wheel.