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Um, we’re having such a great time on our little chicken farm with our granddaughter. So many great things. So, uh, sign up by tapping the link that I’ve provided. Okay, let’s jump into it. Question for you. Have you ever prayed for God’s care and what showed up seemed way more like additional trouble? Have you ever prayed for relief and what God seems to deliver is more resistance? Have you ever prayed for peace and instead things just seem to get harder and then you start to ask yourself, does God really care about me? Is he even hearing my prayers? Why is he not
answering them and giving me the thing that I’m asking for? And then this leaves you wondering if God really cares about me, then why is this still so painful? Is he even hearing my prayers? What if the thing you’re asking God to take away from you is the very thing that he’s giving you as part of his care for you? What if the care you’re looking for is actually something that is even more important for you, even though it feels even violent? Because God’s care for you, his concern for you is so intense. Sometimes he will do the thing
that is painful in order to rescue you and rip the evil and the unhealth to care for you. When you think of God’s care for you, what what images come to mind? Is it the is it is it the loving father? Uh, do you think of images of peace, of comfort, of tranquility, of a lack of anxiety and stress? Well, sometimes God’s care for you comes by intensifying the anxiety, by intensifying the stress so that you and I can see the danger of the choices that we’re making.
Sometimes God’s care doesn’t look like compassion or release. Sometimes it comes wrapped in tension. Sometimes it comes in the form of disruption and disregulation of your nervous system, leaving you restless and unable to find peace. Could it be that the care that we’re crying out for is actually not the care that we need? There’s actually a very powerful example of this in the scriptures in the Old Testament.
