God: His Providential Care & His Promises in Scripture

Today is Day 5 on my two week journey towards optimal health & wellness at the Biologix Center in Franklin, Tennessee. After ten years of chronic illness, I’m not only beginning to heal physically but both emotionally and spiritually as well. According to God’s perfect, sovereign plan for my life, He is daily orchestrating details and events while I’m here that are so obviously for my good and for His glory.

Although I’ve known and loved the Lord the bulk of my life, God uses these sojourns - sojourns that are sometimes scary, sometimes hopeful, sometime both - to teach a believer about His character and to train that believer to always be abiding in Christ (John 15), to be relying on His providential care and to be trusting the Holy Spirit’s power always and in every situation.

Romans 8:26+27 (NLT) says And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God want us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God’s own will.

How ‘bout that for a passage of scripture to cling to during times of suffering and hardship?

During my ten years of suffering, scriptures like this and countless others have bolstered me through think and thin. And today, Day 5 as referenced above, I take with me Psalm 143:8: Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

I hope that, whatever your day brings, you’ll lay it before God and pray back to Him His promises to you, promises held for all time in the pages of His Word.