Devotional Journal

For the mother in the hospital room, the NICU, or waiting on test results. When the diagnosis comes and changes everything, you are not alone. God is with you, holding what you cannot hold.

You're not who you used to be. And you're not yet who you will be. You're in the middle. In the becoming. And it feels messy and slow and uncertain. But God is at work in the becoming. "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." (Philippians 1:6, NIV) You're not finished. And that's okay. God is not done with you yet. He is still shaping you, still refining you, still working in you to make you more like Him. And that work...

God has asked you to do something. And you don't understand why. It doesn't make sense. But obedience doesn't require understanding. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." (Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV) God doesn't always explain Himself. He doesn't always give you the full picture before He asks you to move. He asks you to trust Him. To obey even when it doesn't make sense. Obedience is not about having all the answers. It's about trusting the One who...

You've been holding on so tightly. To control. To outcomes. To the way you think things should be. And the tighter you hold, the more exhausted you become. Maybe God is asking you to let go. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." (1 Peter 5:7, NIV) Letting go is not giving up. It's trusting that God is big enough to handle what you cannot. That He cares about what you care about. That you don't have to carry everything on your own. You were never meant to control it all. You were meant to trust....