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Every Detail of My Life Is in The Loving Master Plan Of a

Creator God.

Is there someone putting it over me? Has someone been
sarcastic to me? Lying to me? Overcharging me? Nasty to

me? Talking about me? Mistreating me or my children? Is my

daughter going out with someone I just don’t like? Is my son
playing around with drugs? Am I concerned about my own

behaviour? Have I let the side down? Do I worry myself to

death about my family? Or my church that I love as Jesus
passing through the world? the way society is? Or the way

someone I know is being treated – unjustly? Our first thought is
very often to rush in there and fix it. But wait!

Let us first concentrate on God, looking into His face and

praising Him for all such things we don’t understand, making no

decisions about it but letting Him do that, just as bad as those
things are. God being in the praise will know how to deal with it.

We might only succeed in getting everyone’s back up by
dashing ahead without Him. We might even hurt the innocent in

our haste.

My life is in the palm of His great hand, the very hand of God.

Every single thing fits into this picture. Every hair of my head is
counted. The chair I sit on is held in existence by God. By this

trust in God through praise, we will see God at work moulding

and reforming us in every aspect of our lives. We miss our bus,
I burn my toast, my car won’t start, I sleep in, I am overheard, I

am accused, I can’t sleep before a big day, I am ill on a big day.

By praise and thanks God can make it work for us as He knows
best. Nothing can happen without God. If it looks so bad that

we think God couldn’t be involved in such a thing –

earthquakes, cyclones, terrorism, these are precisely the
situations where we need to put God, to ask Him to take over

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