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• In Hands of Divine Gardener

“Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.” (from Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis)

And so it is with God’s promises. How can I count on the promise of being like a well-watered garden (Jer. 31:12) if I am disconnected from the source of Living Water (John 4:10, 14)?

How can I be transformed into the image of Christ if I don’t place myself in the hands of the one who can mold and shape me?

Let’s drink of the Living Water. Let’s turn our lives over to the hands of He who transforms.

• In God's Right Hand

Overwhelmed. I think that would be the best expression of my state of being the past couple of months. Overwhelmed.

I will spare you the list of things that have given me that feeling, knowing that you have your own list. Now, don’t go there and start feeling overwhelmed at my mere mention of the list… stay with me for a moment of reflection on something I have come to realize.

How can I feel overwhelmed and frustrated about something that is no longer in my hands?

If I have truly given things over to God, left them in His capable hands. If I depend on Him to meet my needs and trust His protection for whatever comes my way, why do I take those things back out of His hands and attempt to juggle them in my own. By not leaving my worries in God’s hands, I welcome back the feeling of being overwhelmed, frustrated, and discouraged.

My encouragement today is not to give things over to God, but rather to leave it all in His hands.