October 3

Don’t ever say, “I’m going to get even with them if it’s the last thing I do!” Wrap God’s grace around your heart and he will be the one to vindicate you”. Proverbs 20:22 (TPT)

​It is pretty much impossible to go through life without being hurt or offended, lied to, or about, misused, or misunderstood. The temptation, and it is a strong one, is to take matters into your own hands to get justice, to speak your truth, and try to make it right. 

Instead, a far better way is to give the pain, the wounding, and the feelings of betrayal, to God Himself, for He understands as no one else could, then watch and see what He will do.

In your hands, limited results may be possible, and revenge extracted only feels good for a moment, if that! However, in His loving care, your own heart is protected and healed, and the whole situation will be taken care of in ways you could not possibly have known to do. 

We see in part but He knows the whole picture. Find your place of grace in the safety of His heart. Rest in the fact that He knows what is truth, and let that truth set you free. He will take of it for you, dear heart, better than you can imagine, and He will take care of you! 
 
Don’t carry what is too heavy for you.  Don’t let it wear you down or wear you out.  Know instead that in His hands, with your heart secure in His grace, He will work it out!

 Prayer:

I take You at Your word today, Lord, and I receive Your promise, that if I hand all the pain, all the wounding, all the misunderstandings, and misery to You—You will take care of it all in ways that I would never know how to do, and I can rest instead in You, watching and waiting, resting and trusting, in what You alone will do.

Forgive me for the times I have wounded others by trying to do things my own way or in my own time, instead of looking to You first, relying on Your wisdom, and trusting You.

Where I have been in the wrong, Lord, help me to make it right. Where others have wronged me, in ways that still hurt, I hand it all over to You.

Come, Lord Jesus, be the Lord of my life. Advocate, and speak to me, and for me, with words of life and truth, as you so faithfully and lovingly do. In all things now and in the days to come, with Your help and by Your grace, I look to You.

Wrapped in Your kindness, surrounded by your love, I pray.