Trusting God Day by Day: 365 Daily Devotions by Joyce Meyer Read Free Book Online Page B
Authors: Joyce Meyer
Obviously, I cannot have everything I want at the same time, so I need to pick one of those places and eat there. I can go to the others later.
Let me encourage you to start making decisions without second-guessing yourself or worrying about the choices you make. Don’t be double-minded. Doubting your decisions after you make them will steal the enjoyment from everything you do. Make the best decisions you can, and trust God with the results. Don’t be anxious or afraid of being wrong. If your heart is right and you make a decision not in accordance with God’s will, He will forgive you and help you move on.
Trust in Him Be decisive. Whatever you need to do in life, just do it. Keep it simple and trust God with the results.
February 5
You Can Trust God’s Timing
My times are in Your hands…
PSALM 31:15
O ne of the biggest mistakes we make as believers is failing to remember that God’s timing rarely matches our timing. We think and plan in temporal terms, and God thinks and plans in eternal terms. What this means is we want what feels good right now, what produces immediate results, but God is willing to be patient and deliberate as He invests in us over a period of time to produce results far better and longer lasting than we can imagine.
Just as our children try to talk us into giving them what they want right away, we often try to talk God into immediately giving us what wewant. He loves us even more than we love our children, and He loves us too much to give in to our pleadings. He knows something born prematurely might struggle to survive, so He waits until He knows everything is properly prepared for the arrival of our dreams.
God sees and understands what we do not see and understand. He asks us to put aside our natural tendencies to want to figure out what should happen in our lives and when it should happen. He also desires us to stop being frustrated because things do not go according to our plan, and instead to relax, enjoy the ride, and trust He is working everything out according to His timing and the wisdom of His plan.
Without trusting God, we will never experience satisfaction and enjoyment in life; we will always be striving to “make things happen” within our timeline. We must remember God not only has plans for our lives, He also knows the perfect timing for each aspect of those plans. Fighting and resisting the timing of God is equivalent to fighting and resisting His will for our lives. God is working, often in ways we cannot see, to bring His plans to pass in our lives in the best possible ways. We simply need to trust Him as we wait for the arrival of our dreams.
Trust in Him You can trust that God is working on His plan for your life; He is preparing it for you and you for it. His plan may not come on your timetable, but the arrival of your dream
is
coming. Just have a seat (trust in Him, enter His rest), and when the time is precisely right, He’ll call your name.
February 6
Love Covers Mistakes
… love covers all transgressions.
PROVERBS 10:12
S ometimes, the best way to deal with an offense or with something that gets on our nerves is simply to overlook it. If we insist upon callingevery little mistake to people’s attention (this is called “nit-picking”), we are not being gracious and merciful.
Every member of every household on earth has some annoying habits. Nobody’s perfect. In our home, I have habits Dave wishes I didn’t have and he has habits I wish he didn’t have. For instance, Dave does not always close his closet door. In our closets, the lights stay on if the doors are open. For years, I had a hard time simply closing the closet door for him; I always wanted to make sure Dave knew he left the door open and I had to close it again!
Our fleshly natures really enjoy telling people what they have done wrong and how we have fixed it. The best way for me to handle Dave’s open closet door is to close it and go on about my day, not to say,
“You left your
Let me encourage you to start making decisions without second-guessing yourself or worrying about the choices you make. Don’t be double-minded. Doubting your decisions after you make them will steal the enjoyment from everything you do. Make the best decisions you can, and trust God with the results. Don’t be anxious or afraid of being wrong. If your heart is right and you make a decision not in accordance with God’s will, He will forgive you and help you move on.
Trust in Him Be decisive. Whatever you need to do in life, just do it. Keep it simple and trust God with the results.
February 5
You Can Trust God’s Timing
My times are in Your hands…
PSALM 31:15
O ne of the biggest mistakes we make as believers is failing to remember that God’s timing rarely matches our timing. We think and plan in temporal terms, and God thinks and plans in eternal terms. What this means is we want what feels good right now, what produces immediate results, but God is willing to be patient and deliberate as He invests in us over a period of time to produce results far better and longer lasting than we can imagine.
Just as our children try to talk us into giving them what they want right away, we often try to talk God into immediately giving us what wewant. He loves us even more than we love our children, and He loves us too much to give in to our pleadings. He knows something born prematurely might struggle to survive, so He waits until He knows everything is properly prepared for the arrival of our dreams.
God sees and understands what we do not see and understand. He asks us to put aside our natural tendencies to want to figure out what should happen in our lives and when it should happen. He also desires us to stop being frustrated because things do not go according to our plan, and instead to relax, enjoy the ride, and trust He is working everything out according to His timing and the wisdom of His plan.
Without trusting God, we will never experience satisfaction and enjoyment in life; we will always be striving to “make things happen” within our timeline. We must remember God not only has plans for our lives, He also knows the perfect timing for each aspect of those plans. Fighting and resisting the timing of God is equivalent to fighting and resisting His will for our lives. God is working, often in ways we cannot see, to bring His plans to pass in our lives in the best possible ways. We simply need to trust Him as we wait for the arrival of our dreams.
Trust in Him You can trust that God is working on His plan for your life; He is preparing it for you and you for it. His plan may not come on your timetable, but the arrival of your dream
is
coming. Just have a seat (trust in Him, enter His rest), and when the time is precisely right, He’ll call your name.
February 6
Love Covers Mistakes
… love covers all transgressions.
PROVERBS 10:12
S ometimes, the best way to deal with an offense or with something that gets on our nerves is simply to overlook it. If we insist upon callingevery little mistake to people’s attention (this is called “nit-picking”), we are not being gracious and merciful.
Every member of every household on earth has some annoying habits. Nobody’s perfect. In our home, I have habits Dave wishes I didn’t have and he has habits I wish he didn’t have. For instance, Dave does not always close his closet door. In our closets, the lights stay on if the doors are open. For years, I had a hard time simply closing the closet door for him; I always wanted to make sure Dave knew he left the door open and I had to close it again!
Our fleshly natures really enjoy telling people what they have done wrong and how we have fixed it. The best way for me to handle Dave’s open closet door is to close it and go on about my day, not to say,
“You left your
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