We hear a lot about being overwhelmed. We're overwhelmed with work, with parenting, with school. Our plates are full, our schedules are packed, our action lists keep growing. While we're looking ahead to the next weekend, we're still catching up with last weekend's projects. Anxiety and pressure hover around us like a squadron of mosquitoes...... Can you remember swimming in the ocean when waves were rolling in? Sometimes you rode the waves, sometimes the waves slapped you around and threw you down. One way to stay in the water and avoid being thrashed is to dive under a wave just as it's about to break. The water rolls overhead and you experience nothing more than a gentle nudge. There is a way to be overwhelmed with Jesus that is similar. As life's pressures try to break over us like waves, we can focus on the strong hand of Jesus that holds us constantly and will shelter us.
Deuteronomy 7:19 "the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, by which the LORD your God brought you out. So shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid."
blessings,
Rob Smith
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