God Is Our Power

I love this verse. The reason I love this verse so much is because it reminds me that God is our power. He gives us all the power and ability, to glorify and honor him. 

Something I tend to get really cought up in, is worrying about what I need to do next and where I need to go, in order to do what God wants me to do and be who he wants me to be. However he tells us simply to "be still and know that I am God". This is so comforting. I don't have to worry about doing anything. Because its not me that will do it anyways. The Lord will do his work through us and all we need to do is let him, and be still. 

Trust- Jeremiah 42:1-2

Jeremiah 43:1-2 (NLT)

When Jeremiah had finished giving this message from the Lord their God to all the people, Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other proud men said to Jeremiah, "You lie! The Lord our God hasn't forbidden us to go to Egypt!"

When I read this, for some reason it really stood out to me. And I think that reason is because it reminded me of my own attitude allot of the time. The way it describes the men who were accusing Jeremiah of lying, was "Proud" and I think we all show that attitude every now and again. But the biggest thing that stuck out to me was that just shortly before this, they are all wanting to hear to from God (Jeremiah 42:5-6) and after all that, once God gives them a message through Jeremiah, they accuse him of lying. RIGHT after they were anticipating hearing from the Lord. I think this is simply because they had said that they would obey the Lord, whether they liked it or not, and once they heard it, they decided that didn't like it. It wasn't what they wanted to hear. So they assumed Jeremiah to be wrong so they could continue doing what THEY wanted to do. If they could blame him, it would justify their actions.

I think I do this much more than I would like to admit. I think we like to say that we will do and go whatever and wherever God tells us to, because WE already have an idea of what that looks like. But sometimes God's plan is different that ours, and rather than trusting him, we try and control it and do it ourselves.

Joy- Jeremiah 31:9

Jeremiah 31:9
Tears of joy will stream down their faces, and I will lead them home with great care. They will walk beside quite streams and on smooth paths where they will not stumble. 

Trust- Jeremiah 42:5-6

Jeremiah 42:5-6
Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the Lord your God be a faithful witness against us if we refuse to obey whatever he tells us to do! Whether we like it or not, we will obey the Lord our God to whom we are spending you with our plea. For if we obey him, everything will turn out well for us."