Me: Did you enjoy your fishing?

Prodigal: Yes, and I even caught a fish.

Me: The Lord has blessed you!

This is from the book Joy in Christ’s Presence by Charles Spurgeon

Then this blessed Lord or ours had a sweet way of leaving everything with God. He did not stay awake, He did not worry,but He went to sleep. Whatever came, He had left everything in the hands of the great Caretaker. What more is needed? If a watchman was hired to guard my house, I would be foolish if I also sat up for fear of thieves. Why have a watchman if I cannot trust him to watch? “Cast thy burden upon the LORD” (Ps. 55:22), but when you have done so, leave it with the Lord and do not try to carry it yourself. Otherwise, you mock God; you use the name of God, but not the reality of God. Lay down every care, even as Jesus did when He went calmly to the rear part of the ship, quietly took a pillow, and went to sleep.

You want to worry. That is the natural reaction. Losing sleep and thinking about it a million ways will not help at all. The Lord has known about all this and He has it. Cast this burden to the Lord. Cast the worry and allow God to show you what he can do!

Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us?

Romans 8:35

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org