Here is a devotional flip around using Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling-yeah, I like this book in case you hadn’t noticed.

Want to know what to do to live your life well???

Follow this discipline to “enable you to enjoy life more and to face each day confidently:

(Sounds good, doesn’t it?)

1. Trust in the Lord (Psalm 37:3)

2. Commit your ways to the Lord (Psalm 37:5)

3. Be still before the Lord (Psalm 37:7)

Easy.

Then why do I have such a hard time keeping that peace that passes all understanding???

Why do I feel like my emotions control me more than I control them?

Why do I vascillate with doubt and worry so much??

Well…

Do you (or I) “trust God enough to let things happen without striving to predict or control them”?

Hmmm..

That would be doing The List.

“When you project yourself into the future, rehearsing what you will do or say, you are seeking to be self-sufficient: to be adequate without My help” (OUCH).

The alternative, however, is to “FULLY LIVE IN THE PRESENT, depending on Me each moment”.

No regrets of the past, no re-do of yesterday, not thinking ahead to tomorrow (or to Thanksgiving)…live in today..Wednesday October 10, 2018.

Train yourself to seek the Lord in ALL things, big or small, “even when you feel competent to handle something by yourself. Don’t divide your life into things you can do by yourself and things that require My help“.

I habitually jump to the future to plan (and worry) and analyze the past to process (or torture myself)…I want to enjoy life more than what those habits bring me most days…

How about you?

Trust.

Commit.

Be still.