Today’s devotional comes from Max Lucado’s book Grace for the Moment
God Knows What’s Best
Trust the Lord with all your heart,
and don’t depend on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
The problem with this world is that it doesn’t fit. Oh, it will do for now, but it isn’t tailor-made. We were made to live with God, but on earth we live by faith. We were made to live forever, but on this earth we live but for a moment. . . .
We must trust God. We must trust not only that he does what is best but that he knows what is ahead. Ponder the words of Isaiah 57:1-2: “The good men perish; the godly die before their time and no one seems to care or wonder why. No one seems to realize that God is taking them away from the evil days ahead. For the godly who die shall rest in peace” (TLB).
My, what a thought. God is taking them away from the evil days ahead. Could death be God’s grace? Could the funeral wreath be God’s safety ring? As horrible as the grave may be, could it be God’s protection from the future?
Trust in God, Jesus urges, and trust in me.
A Gentle Thunder
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I had not remembered reading that verse in Isaiah before. It is very comforting, I wish I would have discovered it earlier. It also as all of God’s wisdom, matches Jesus’ promise to keep us from the wrath, his faithful brothers and sisters of His church.
May Peace be with you!
myBlessedHope 