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Falling Together

    Sometimes it feels like everything we know is falling apart. We've been praying and praying and still it seems like things only get worse around us. I encourage you today to keep pressing on in those times. While it may look like you have been abandoned, take heart knowing that it is all for a purpose. When things fall apart, they may actually be falling right into place.

    When we do not have Christ in our lives, we go about building our lives with the materials we know and have access to. These materials are from the world. But when we give our lives over to Jesus, He wants to fix those areas. It is His will that our lives be joyful and abundantly blessed. That is why He instructs us how to live in His word. That process takes some reassembling.

1 Corinthians 3:10-11 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. (ESV)

Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. (ESV)

    Before He can change you, you must first be aware of the things in your life that are not aligned with His word. It can be difficult when our hearts are attached to something other than Him. We become blinded by that area and unable to discern whether it is good and righteous or not. Like I mentioned the other day, He is merciful to strip those things away from our vision so we can see Him and live our lives to the fullest. It is out of His great love and mercy that He reveals Himself to us by stripping away the things of the world that come in between.

Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (ESV)

Colossians 3:9-10 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (ESV)

    Do not yell at Jesus for failing to answer your prayers in these times. Consider that He is everything that is good and faithful and true. He hears your prayers and He has not forgotten them. If you ask to know Him, He will honor that desire. But getting there rarely looks like what we think it will. Trust that because of His infinite love for you, He is leading you down a path of righteousness.

Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. (HCSB)

Proverbs 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. (ESV)

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