When my heart is overwhelmed...

     Sometimes all of the sudden problems seem really big and unmanageable. It's crazy how I can see God work time and again, and then suddenly (like the Israelites and the 12 disciples) I forget all God's past miracles and focus on all of my present problems! How silly of me! It's like in the Bible when shortly after Jesus had already fed the five thousand with five loaves of bread and two small fish, and the disciples ask Jesus how He is planning to feed another crowd that is actually smaller than the first! It's easy to shake my head at the disciples in the Bible, and yet, how often am I like that myself!

     Anyway, this morning in my devotions I read a passage in Psalms, a few verses that I had actually already put to music to help me remember them. Such amazing verses, and at the end of my day as I was beginning to fret and forget just how big my God is, these verses came back to me:

 "Hear my cry, O God; attend to my prayer. 

From the end of the earth I will cry to You, 

when my heart is overwhelmed; 

lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

For You have been a shelter to me,

a strong tower from the enemy. 

I will abide in Your tabernacle forever; 

I will trust in the shelter of Your wings." 

Psalm 61:1-4 (NKJV)

     It was a great reminder, and somehow, as suddenly as my problems became huge, they seemed small again. How great is our God, who not only knows the silly concerns of my life, but cares deeply about them, and about me. I don't know how anybody could live without Him!