“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Phil. 4:6 & 7
Spotted this little leaf. I think it’s beautiful. It’s little and there were a zillion others just like it spread amongst the glimmering grasses of this sunny Fall day. I chose this one, chose to carry it with me, all the way home. I thought about the love of the Heavenly Father. He carries His children.
There is a desire to be held with the strongest and greatest assurance and security and to have every longing, every single detail big and small wrapped up in One blessed assurance, this is more satisfying than anything else in this world.
What a beautiful security for a Believer in Christ – chosen. Every Fall I seem to think about this hand picked -chosen by God – honor. God chose me, and I have received Him as Lord.
Blessed assurance Jesus is mine, oh what a foretaste of Glory Divine.
As His child, may you be reminded today, God wants to carry you.
I cannot help but think of this loving Father Who carries, and it related to submission. When we let go of our everything-submit to Him, He lifts us up and carries us exactly where He wants us to go. And there is peace and blessing in this place.
“there is no one like God – Who rides across the heavens to help you and on the clouds in His majesty. The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms” Deut. 33:26-27
To become His child – please do not wait another moment:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[b] predestined us for adoption to sonship[c] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us. With all wisdom and understanding, 9 he[d] made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times reach their fulfillment—to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ.
11 In him we were also chosen,[e] having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory. 13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory.”
Eph. 1:1-14