This morning as I was getting ready I was listening to my music. Music has been so therapeutic for me over the past three months. As I listened to the words it hit me again how perfect God’s timing truly is… Then I remembered the devotion I read to the girls on the way to the marathon on Sunday…again perfect timing. With all of this said, I felt led to post this song and this devotion from Jesus Calling for someone out there today:
You Make Everything Beautiful
Grant me serenity to accept things
The things I cannot change
Grant me the courage, Lord, to change what I can
Wisdom to know the difference
In my weakness You can shine
In Your strength I can fly and
You make everything, everything beautiful
You make everything, everything new
You make everything, everything beautiful
In its time, in Your time
It’s beautiful
Grant me serenity, Lord, and patience
For things will take time
Grant me freedom to walk a new path
And let me feel Your love
In my weakness You can shine
In Your strength I can fly and
Lifting open hands to You my Savior
Beautify my soul
Knowing You redeem my pain and failure
Purify my soul
Beautify my soul
September 1
Seek Me with your whole being. I desire to be found by you, and I orchestrate the events of your life with that purpose in mind. When things go well and you are blessed, you can feel Me smiling on you. When you encounter rough patches along your life-journey, trust that My Light is still shining upon you. My reasons for allowing these adversities may be shrouded in mystery, but My continual Presence with you is an absolute promise. Seek Me in good times; seek Me in hard times. You will find Me watching over you all the time.
But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul.
—Deuteronomy 4:29
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
—Hebrews 10:23
The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy.
—Psalm 145:20
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