Give Yourself Grace

The Lord is saying: I Am here, and I Am with you. I know many of you are at the end of your rope in this life, as things don’t seem to be getting better for you.  Instead, you suffer over little things that you would think would be so easy to solve.  But I have a plan in all things, and it is a good plan, and this includes even the smallest details in your life.  Each little thing, combined with many other little things, culminates in big things, and this is where I Am directing you.  What seems like a roadblock at every turn is actually Me hindering you from moving ahead of Me, causing you to trust Me and ultimately that you be along the path further down the line than you think that you are.  You cannot see all that I Am doing in your life, so give yourself grace when you are frustrated, and don’t let these little things make you downcast when it is making you into what I have planned for you.  Remember that your moment is “now”, not yesterday, and not tomorrow, but I Am at work now.  You see the future, and you stress because you do not see Me working in your future, but I Am there just like I Am with you now.  Live in the now and don’t fret the little struggles you deal with daily.  I Am.

 

2 Cor 12:1-10 (ESV) I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3  And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4  and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5  On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses— 6  though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7  So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. 8  Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10  For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 

(Phil 1:6, 4:6-7; Matt 6:34; Lam 3:22-23)