Same As Always

We’re kind of wired to seek information, and we often struggle with anxiety when we feel uncertainty about things. – Adam Anderson, Clinical Psychologist, 

58% of Americans say they prefer a digital device, 
far higher than the share who prefer TV (32%). 
Relatively few Americans prefer radio (6%) or print (4%).
– Pew Research Center

When life is uncertain, God is not. God’s Got It! 

Question: What about the world today makes you anxious?

“You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.” John 11:50

While they were reclining and eating, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.” Mark 14:18.

They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, “Surely not I?” Mark 14:19

He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve—the one who is dipping bread in the bowl with me. Mark 14:20

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had not been born.” Mark 14:21

… that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and … be killed, and rise after three days. Mark 8:3.

Even when you don’t see it He’s working. 
Even when you don’t feel it He’s working.

As they were eating, he took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” 23 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Mark 14:22–24.
When life is uncertain, God is not. God’s Got It! 

Question: What might make it hard for you to trust God? Do you find yourself seeking hope in places other than God? does it work?

When life seems uncertain?
Look in the Bible.
For no one is cast off by the Lord forever. Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone. Lamentations 3:31-33
God speaks wisdom, truth, and hope in his written Word.

Look in the Church.
No church is perfect, but 
Every church that strives to follow Jesus will be transformed to impact the world for God’s goodness and love. 
Look in the circumstances
For his invisible attributes, that is, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen since the creation of the world, being understood through what he has made. Romans 1:20.

When life is uncertain, God is not. God’s Got It! 

Reflection 
What is issue are you worried about the most?
Pray, “God, can you help me see you work in this moment?”