oh, well

"Try to see things more and more from My perspective. Let the Light of My Presence so fully fill your mind that you view the world through Me. When little things don't go as you had hoped, look to Me lightheartedly and say "Oh, well." This simple discipline can protect you from being burdened with an accumulation of petty cares and frustrations. If you practice this diligently, you will make a life changing discovery: you will realize that most of the things that worry you are not important." ***** today's devotion was so good, I wanted to copy it in its entirety, but instead I will use this opportunity to encourage you to buy your own copy of Jesus Calling.

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Proverbs 20:24 A man steps are directed by the LORD. How then can anyone understand his own way.

II Corinthians 4: 17-18 So our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far out weights them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporal, but what is unseen is eternal.

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God's perspective, we need to see through His perspective rather than our own.

How do we do that?

We need to know God is God. He is our God and Father, but He has absolute authority to do as He pleases. He is also omniscient (all knowing), omnipresent (present everywhere), omnipotent (all powerful). There is nothing He can't do. There is nothing that God will do outside of His Character: loving, true, just, faithful...

We need to know God's heart for us. God loves us, with a love that is eternal. He only wants for us the very best, what will help us to become who we were meant to be. He would never intentionally hurt us. He will allow things to hurt us, because it is often through pain that we learn to be more Christlike.

We need to know that God is interested in all of our lives. There is nothing in our lives that He

doesn't care about. He isn't just orchestrating the "big" things that happen to us, but He knows that even "small" things are important to the whole picture of our lives.

We need to know that God sees our heart. He knows what we want and why. He is the good Father who gives good gifts, but also with holds what is not good for us.

So when things do not go as we had hoped, we know that God is God, he loves us, and is interested in every aspect of our lives, and He must have a better plan at work!

That makes it much easier to say, "Oh, well."

one thousand gifts

#166 raindrops bouncing of the leaves

#167 a warm comforter on a rainy day