16 Days into the New Year, I thought I would be employed by now and I'm not - gulp* gulp* With the only certain thing in my life being on the first and 15th of every month (oh and now that I'm doing youth the next 9 Fridays are planned out - YAY!).
So the 15th of January rolled round yesterday and I thought 'OH NO I don't have a verse to memorize for the next 2 weeks' que the anxiety. Ridiculous right, anxious because I can't find a verse that speaks to me, one where I can hear God saying 'Justine this is where you're focus needs to be for the next 2 weeks'. In my true fashion I list the things that I am struggling with in life...
anxiety
fear (links to trusting God)
stress
uncertainty
My next step is to page through my journal and see if I've written down any verses that I could use, nothing. My next turn is to my bible concordance and see what I can find, the result NOTHING. Well I am a 21st century woman so lets use technology, I will google the scripture verses I am looking for - nothing relevant. Finally I go to my bible software and search, after scrolling through and reading a number of verses I got Isaiah 12:2 "Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation."
Having just posted it, I saw another ladies verse come up under mine and I am now hijacking her's so verse 2 for 2011, which I think re-iterates what I chose - "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV
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"Being CERTAIN of this that He who began a good work in you will carry it onto completion until [Jesus comes back]." Philippians 1:6 NIV
