Unfortunately but Fortunately

I stare at this chain…will it ever get any shorter? These days are passing by so slowly. I wish things could go my way. Unfortunately but fortunately someone bigger has my life planned out to a tee. I will never be able to understand. Everything he has for me, everything he has already given to me. His depth is infinite. His love is everlasting. I don’t deal well with change. The Lord tries to show me often that I am only a pilgrim here on the earth. He moves me, literally, a lot. It’s sort of frustrating, right when I feel at home; He assures me that I am not. For these reasons I praise the Lord that he is not apparent to see or touch or someone might get hurt. Controlling myself drives me crazy. I want to unleash and let everyone know how I feel. This is how I learn to praise the Lord for self-control. Knowing that God always provides is a wonderful thing to take captive. I might not feel like he is providing for me at the time, but through me, he is providing for someone in my life.
This, I think should be every Christian’s anthem:
ROMANS 14:8
For if we live, we live to the lord, and if we die, we die to the lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the lord’s.
Simply put, we always belong to him, He always calls us by name, and he calls us his own.
JOB 1:21 says:
Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The Lord gave and the lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Praising God under all circumstances. Job said this after everything he possessed, had been taken away from, his inheritance, his children, all of his possessions but through his trial he realizes what the Lord has given to him and then that He has also taken away, because God has every right to our lives and yet still he praises His name! I wish that I could see all the good the Lord has done in my life when I am going through the rough trials. John 16:33 says to “be of good cheer” when we go through this tough thing and James 1:2-3 says to “count it all joy”.
Lord, let me be a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you. Let everything I do bring glory and honor to your name lord. Let everything I do, to be only for you. Take my life and make it yours, I want to be like you, Jesus. I want people to see you in me. Lord, let me praise you under all circumstances, help me to remember you when you bless my life, lord and don’t let me forget you when you put trials in my way. Let me only see you working in my life. Thank you for all you are doing and all you will do. In your name, Jesus. Amen.