check emotions and keep moving

Emotions are raw.

Looking around us, listening to the struggles and acknowledge that there are so many things going on. Seriously. They might not hot our home, but they impact our emotions, change our thinking and even make us stop what we are doing.

There are many topics that run through my mind, and I know we must share that God will meet our needs. He will different days to do it. He will use the trials, pain and struggles to teach us, and I choose to trust Him. What I need to do is encourage those who are following God to stay faithful.

Choose today. Be faithful in your time with God. Be faithful to the people God has put around you. Be faithful with the resources you have been given, be generous and support your church.

Turn around and keep moving. This past week, and really the last month or so, we have heard about failure of pastors, families that are falling apart, many battles sickness like cancer and more. All of them remind us that we need to understand that God knows, He is in control, and I will continue to have faith in God.

As we said yesterday, the struggles are real, and the struggles remind us we really need God. We have a big God. Even when our emotions are raw.

Keep on. Pray. Be generous. Serve often. Encourage your pastor and others.

Job 4:3 NLT

In the past you have encouraged many people; you have strengthened those who were weak.

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 NLT

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.

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