It is so difficult to just relax these days. Being a part of this world seems to want to attach stress, worry, or fear to hearts and minds, keeping people who fall subject to it bound up with with plans of tomorrow. I have realized that even though I continually say to God that all of who I am is His, that my future is His, that today is His...I would hold tightly onto my finances and hold onto what knowing what my next step is.
In doing this...I have not let freedom reign in my life...but bondage to a poverty mentality. Letting go of this has felt like a weight has been lifted off of my shoulders and a peace has come to rest upon my mind. When times of financial need or the desire to have complete "control" of my future and my life I it has become a necessary step to remind myself that God is in control...that He knows the plans He has for me...He has given me a promise...now it is a promise that I have to choose to live by day by day. My bank account only takes me so far, my jobs can only provide so much...but God...God always provides. I am free....free to relax...free to live in peace...and free to trust in Jesus Christ.
Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
