From Jesus: I am your Strength and your Shield. I continually work---sometimes in wondrous ways---to help and protect you. As you put your trust in Me, your heart can leap for Joy! ------- Trusting Me and loving Me go hand in hand. When I search the hearts of My children, what I focus on most of all is the measure of love and trust within them. If you say you love Me but you do not really trust Me---to take care of you and your loved ones, providing what is best in your lives---then your words ring hollow. ------- To trust Me wholeheartedly, you must rest in My sovereignty: My absolute control over the universe. When circumstances seem to be spinning out of control, its essential to believe I know what I am doing. I orchestrate every event of your life---including suffering and loss---to benefit you in this world and the next. While you are in the throes of adversity, your greatest challenge is to keep trusting that I am both sovereign and good! Do not expect to understand My ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than yours. The best response is simply to thank Me, believing I can bring much good out of the unwanted circumstances. This act of faith will encourage you and glorify Me. I rejoice when My struggling children give thanks to Me in song. ------- I am the Light of the world. My followers will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of Life. Even though there is much darkness in this world, you always have access to Me. So you are never in total darkness. The trail before you may look obscure, especially as it disappears into the future. You would like it to be flood-lit so you could anticipate whats up ahead. But I tell you: I AM ENOUGH! I am with you, and I also go before you---illuminating the way. Your assignment is to trust Me and follow the Light I provide. No matter how dim it may seem, it is sufficient for your journey through today. ------- Someday you will be with Me in heaven, and there you will see My Light in all its Glory. Darkness will be a thing of the past, and you will see everything clearly. There will be no more night. You will not need the light of a lamp or of the sun, for I will give you Light---beyond anything you can imagine! Live close to Me, and you will have the Light of Life! The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:7 I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:1-2 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. John 8:12 The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. Proverbs 4:18 There will be no more night. People in heaven will not need the light of a lamp, or the light of the sun, for The Lord God will give them light. And they will reign forever and ever. Revelation 22:5 (Jesus Lives and Jesus Today)
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