Cast all your anxiety on him because He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7
God made a covenant with anyone who would agree with Him: if
you truly give me your concerns, without meddling and fixing, I will involve
myself in your concerns. Typical of God throughout His Word: "here’s My promise
for your sacrifice." Sometimes the greatest sacrifice is surrendering control to
the Invisible. It’s not a magic bowl that makes problems disappear. It’s a sacrificial bowl of trust that gives God
my life in the most practical way. It can be a bowl, it can be a teacup. It's not the container; it's the surrender. Completely let go.
Jesus said, according to your faith, so shall it be. It
doesn’t mean that I sit back and do nothing; it means that I actively give to
him in faith. Miracles have come because of this faith. Not always as we ask or
expect, but they come. He is a God who partners with us in our need, according
to our true heart.
My friend Debbie whose sister had been diagnosed with cancer
for the third time, placed her sister’s cancer diagnosis in the bowl.
Literally, wrote the diagnosis on a card and placed before God in a bowl. The
day of her sister’s treatment was to begin, there was no cancer. Glory to the
God of Human Cells.
A friend Karen placed her daughter’s divorce in the bowl and
God provided a lawyer to represent her. The same friend placed her other
daughter’s estranged marriage in the bowl and God restored them. She even placed her child's apartment into the bowl and watched God move from eviction to ownership. Incredible God!
A friend placed her broken phone in the bowl and God
provided a phone with $500 in accessories.
It’s our needs, large and small, given to God in faith. With
an expectation and open hands that God will be God. Most of all, He builds our
faith based on HIM, not on ourselves or our circumstances. Sometimes it may
immediate or it may take a while, that’s part of trusting God to be God with
us.
It’s a lifestyle of trust and faith. It’s ordinary everyday
people, just like those in Scripture, that come to know the God who meets us
face to Face in the middle of our messes. Living Scripture – then and now –
that walk with a living God and trust Him in the details of our days.
What do you surrender to the bowl before
the God?
