If we are honest, sometimes life just feels like it is too much. Too much to handle, too much to carry, too much to feel, too much to figure out. The weight of our circumstances can hang heavy on our hearts. It’s a universal feeling affecting God’s people from the very beginning.
I don’t know what it is for you. I don’t know what season you are working through and what mountains are before you. I don’t know if it is waiting, or risking, or changing that is next for you. I find myself in a season of pressing and of pain. I find myself in a season where there seems to be more questions hanging around then answers. And when my heart and my head went dizzy trying to figure it all out, God spoke something so simple and sweet.
Fix your eyes on me.
It was only five words, but they brought me to my knees. It was stern but soft. This is the call; when you are afraid, when you are anxious, when you are unsure, lift your head and take the time to meditate on who your God is.
The God who is wise beyond our understanding and perfect in all of His ways.
He is the God who makes no mistakes. Paul writes in Romans 11:33, “Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand His decisions and His ways!”
The God who is good. ALWAYS.
Exodus 34:6 says, “The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” He defines goodness for us. He assures us in Romans 8:28 that even our pain is good: “God causes ALL things to work together for good to those who love Him.”
The God who is unchanging.
What God has said and who He is cannot be changed. We have peace and security in this reality. He hasn’t given up, He doesn’t change his mind. “For I am the Lord, I do not change.” Malachi 3:6
The God who is powerful and in control.
Jeremiah 32:17 says, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.” God is a good King. He has all authority and all control and uses it for His glory. He is working in your life and nothing is too big or too hard for God to overcome.
The God who is faithful.
Perhaps the truth I have clung to most closely in this season. God will never leave or forsake you and nothing you do can change His mind. Deuteronomy 7:9 says, “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.”
Something powerful happens in the human heart when we acknowledge the Lord for who He is. It is when we stop frantically looking at our problems and fix our eyes on Him that peace replaces anxiety, assurance replaces doubt, and overwhelming love replaces fear. He is with you, He is for you. Fix your eyes on Him.