It is not that I am jealous of other people blessings. It is not that I am discouraged. It is not that I am angry, afraid or uncomfortable with my life. But I am disappointed. Disappointed in people who I put my trust in, disappointed in a vision which turned out to be so far from reality, disappointed in the principles I was told and chose to live by. Principles that seemed to promise a solid solution for whatever mess I would find myself in.

Who makes these rules? Who makes these principles? Well for one, it is the home we are raised in, than there is the environment we grow up in and the society we live in.

For a rather long time I thought what I got was what I deserved. For earthly merit teaches you, that we get what we deserve, but the Gospel, yes the precious Gospel teaches us the opposite.

There is nothing we can do to upset God.

God would never harm us. He says in Jeremiah 29:11, that He has plans for our good and not for evil. So in everything, in every situation we face God has installed a  plan for our good. Sometimes we do not understand, actually most of the time we do not understand. And it is not our job to understand everything, if we would we would not need God would we?

Our thoughts are not His thoughts and His ways not our ways, all we have to do is to trust and obey.

Let God be your Potter. The One who shapes you and who trims your edges, not your principles. Then, start living in expectation and awareness of who you are and who created you. I know it gets tough at times but if you trust that you are in the Potters hands you know that he might just be trimming some of the edges in your life right now, but he still has got you.

Because you are His!

And He is for you!

by R.