Daughter, don’t let your heart be troubled.
I know you hate doing what you don’t see as relevant, but aren’t my plans relevant? Aren’t my plans the best for you?
I know you don’t feel it, but you have to remember the difference between feeling and believing.
You won’t always feel the good things you believe.
You won’t always see them with your human eyes. But your eyes are limited.
Mine are not.
Remember who holds you and sees ahead of you, behind you, beside you, all around you.
Daughter, I see all, and I know what is best for you.
I know there is so much you don’t agree with, and there is so much you don’t get excited about like the others. And I know there is so much you don’t understand.
But remember that I am not training you to think and see like everyone else.
Daughter, you will always feel like an outcast in this world.
But that’s okay. You’re not supposed to be a part of this world. You abide in it, but only through me.
Remember Jeremiah? I put my words in his mouth. Do you think he thought like everyone else? No.
Daughter, my daughter, my chosen, my love, you have so much more than any of them.
You have me with you.
You have a real promise, not a castle in the sand. That castle gets washed away as soon as a wave comes. What you have will never be washed away.
You’re building a better foundation. It will survive floods and winds and rain and snow and anything that comes its way.
It is firm, and it is real, not made of sand that deteriorates before your very eyes.
You are more.
See Psalm 139:3-12; Jeremiah 1:4-10 and 20:11; Matthew 7:24-27; Mark 10:23-27; Luke 12:31-32; John 14:1, 14:27, 15:16, 15:18-20, and 16:33; Romans 8:28-37, 11:33-36, and 12:2; Ephesians 3:20
These links share just a glimpse of the story God is telling us. When you have time, read a chapter or two around the verses to get the context and see the whole picture. My preferred Bible translation is the New Living Translation, so all links will be in that version.
