Me:  Prodigal, where are you going?

Prodigal:  Walking to get something to eat, you can join me if you like?

Me:  Thank you and I will join you.

Prodigal:  So whatcha got on your mind today?

Me:  Prayer

 

This is from the book Turning Toward Joy by David Jeremiah

 

In prayer, anxiety is resolved by trust in God.  That which causes the anxiety is brought to the One who is totally competent and in whose hands the matter may be left.  In thanksgiving, anxiety is resolved by the deliberate acceptance of the worrying circumstance as something which an all-wise, all-loving and all-sovereign God has appointed.  Prayer takes up the anxiety-provoking question “How?”-How shall I cope?-and answers by pointing away to Him, to His resources and promises.  Thanksgiving addresses itself to the worrying question “Why?”–Why has this happened to me?–and answers by pointing to the great Doer of all who never acts purposelessly and whose purposes never fail.

 

Don’t try to figure out tomorrow.  Don’t try to figure out next week.  Instead God has promised that he is with you right now and He will help you get through the day.  You don’t have to know how you will get through the day, you just have to lean to Him.  He is a Father who loves you too much to let you go today.

 

John 7:24

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincouseling.org