Author Darlene J. Conard

“This is no longer your concern,” the Lord responded to my attempt to determine the closure concerning long lasting circumstances. The good Lord knows me better than I know myself. This habit of quickly slipping on life’s backpack needed to come to an end.

It’s very true! God knows us inside out. Occasionally I jest, thinking God is looking down on me scratching His head in wonder of how He is going to fix me. That thought is quickly terminated by many promises spoken by God. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11 KJV)

“Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.” (Psalms 139:16 KJV) David acknowledged his imperfections knowing God knew him before he was even born. Our existence transferred from the mind of God from beginning to end. Such wisdom is impossible to fathom!

Philippians 1:6 says, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Philippians 1:6 KJV)

• Be confident
• Begun a good work
• In you
• Will be performed (completed)

God never fails to complete what He started. He does perform with excellence. While He is taking care of the prolonging circumstance(s) God is changing us in the process.

My grandmother would say to me, “Darlene, think of it this way. You want the circumstance to change but God wants to change you.” While He is working, I’m pushing for results. I’ve learned a great deal of things. It hasn’t always been easy, most of the time it’s not. You’ll discover in the end, a bold faith that laid dormant has emerged from beneath the ashes. 

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