New Blog

Well, I haven't blogged since September, so I decided to change the name and start over... I've titled my blog "Surrendered" as a reminder that everything in my life needs to be surrendered over to the Lord. He is in control of all things and knows all things, so why should I worry? Why can't I just trust Him? It's easy to say, but it's hard to do.

Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour yo his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like of of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. but seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.

~ Matthew 6:25-34

This passage of scripture is such a wonderful reminder that we are not to be anxious and not to worry, but to faithfully trust our heavenly Father and to seek Him first above all else. This is my prayer, that I will trust the God who created all things, who knows all things, who is in control of all things, and who knows my sinful heart and yet still loves me enough to die for me.

According to "dictionary.com," the definition of trust is this: 'confident expectation of something; hope.'

I like this definition of trust. We have confidence in Christ that He died for our sins on the cross and He is omniscient and sovereign; and we have the hope that He will one day return again to take His children home. Since He is sovereign, why should we not trust Him?