coincidence

Psalm 55:22 Give your burdens to the Lord,

     & He will take care of you.

He will not permit the godly to slip & fall.


1 Peter 4:19 If you are suffering according to God's will, keep on doing what is right,

     & trust yourself to the God who made you,

          for He will never fail you.


I'm presently reading in Zachariah (weird!), Psalms (me & Billy Graham), & in 1 Peter. It's always interesting to me how sometimes God helps me find the very thing I need to hear that morning in the normal sequences of reading His Word.

I've been wondering lately if there is ever gonna be an end to this season of waiting, abiding,& trusting. It's one thing if God speaks in 1 book I'm reading in. But He gets my attention a little more if it's in 2,or more.

I know, I know - it would be easy to say that this is a mere coincidence.

Maybe it is.

But in the law of averages, how often should that coincidence happen? It happens a lot to me.


I'm gonna include a lot of 1 Peter 4 below - I've got lots of peeps in my life who are trying to leave behind their old lives & be a serious Christ follower. I thought these selected verses would be helpful to someone out there.Lemme know if they are, will ya?

1 Peter 4

1 So then, since Christ suffered physical pain, you must arm yourselves with the same attitude he had, and be ready to suffer, too.For if you have suffered physically for Christ, you have finished with sin. 2 You won't spend the rest of your lives chasing your own desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God. 3 You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

  4 Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. 5 But remember that they will have to face God, who will judge everyone, both the living and the dead.

  7b ...be earnest and disciplined in your prayers. 8 Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Cheerfully share your home with those who need a meal or a place to stay.

  10 God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.11 Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen.

12 Dear friends, don't be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. 13 Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.

  14 So be happy when you are insulted for being a Christian, for then the glorious Spirit of God* rests upon you. 15 If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people's affairs. 16 But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by his name! 17 For the time has come for judgment, and it must begin with God's household. And if judgment begins with us, what terrible fate awaits those who have never obeyed God's Good News? 18 And also,

"If the righteous are barely saved,
  what will happen to godless sinners?"

19 So if you are suffering in a manner that pleases God, keep on doing what is right, and trust your lives to the God who created you, for he will never fail you.