GOD WILL BE "THERE" FOR YOU!

"The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want.......He leadeth me beside the still waters."
Ps 23:1-2

Doug McKnight was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at thirty-two. Over the next sixteen years it would cost him his career, his mobility, and eventually his life. But he never lost his sense of gratitude. When his church friends asked him to compile a list of prayer requests, he responded by sending them eighteen blessings for which to be grateful and six concerns for which to be prayerful. His blessings were three times greater than his needs! Doug McKnight discovered that what he had in God was greater than whatever else he didn't have in life. Have you discovered that yet?

Philip Yancey says, "Faith means trusting in advance, what will only make sense in reverse." If you fear the future, look back and see how God took care of you in the past. "This I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness...The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him" (La 3:21-25 NIV). You say, "I don't know what I'll do if my loved one dies." You will-when the time comes. You say, "I don't know how I'll pay these bills." Jehovah Jireh, the Lord who provides, will be there-when the time comes. You say, "I'm not qualified to handle this, there's too much I don't know." Maybe you want to know everything too soon. God will give you wisdom-when the time comes. The key is to meet today's problems with today's strength, and leave tomorrow in God's hands. During WWll, Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, found it hard to sleep or rid his mind of fear until he adopted these words from the hymn "Lead, Kindly Light": "I do not ask to see the distant scene; one step enough for me." And God isn't going to let you see the distant scene either. No, He promises a lamp for your feet, not a crystal ball for your future. "He leadeth me" and that's enough for today. And tomorrow? "We will find grace to help us when we need it" (Heb 4:16 NLT).