Exactly & With Perfection

Do not give into sadness or desperation for what you’re going through today. God knows how you feel....... God knows exactly and with perfection what is being allowed to happen to you in your life at this precise moment.

God’s purpose for you is simply perfect. He wants to show you things that only you can understand by living what you are living, and by being in the place you are now.

I realize some of you may have already read these two paragraphs in my facebook notes but as I continued to think on things this morning it reminded me of Pastor's message last night.

"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." --Philippians 4:6 Once we have prayed and given it to God we are not to waste anymore thought on the circumstances that would cause us to fret.

Everything is to be given over to God. Trusting Him because He has a precise purpose for what He allows. And with the purpose is a spiritual lesson for us to grow by in the end results. So knowing this we can have "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." --Philippians 4:7

I understand how it is when we get sad or in despair, fretful or anxious. But it is clear God understands that too because He tells us in Philippians 4:8-9 how to occupy our thoughts instead of fretting. "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you."..........through the problems going on in your life.