How quickly we forget?

So I celebrated a birthday a couple of days ago and made myself a promise. I promised that year 32 was going to be different. Well that promise didn't even last 72 hours. How thankful I am that even though I quickly forget, He does not. How thankful I am for His gentle reminders of grace, mercy, and trust. So here's to a restart and staying focused on how He feels and not how I feel. 

How quickly we start to stress about something when He has already promised us He has this. How quickly we question and wonder if He is going to move in a certain situation, when He has moved every other time before when we asked. How quickly we forget that confidence doesn't mean we can do anything, but that He can do everything. 

God's decree was simple....love. He didn't say we had to understand it, He just said do it. He didn't say others would give it back in return, but He said He would. We let what others think, say, and do mean more to us than it ever should. I love something I saw on Facebook this weekend. It was a quote that said there are over 7 billion people in the world and you are going to let one mess up your day. In short...don't. It's not worth it. What you do to others is what you will have to answer for, but in the same regards what they do to you is what they will have to answer for. We trust God to protect us from what we consider big things(tornadoes, car wrecks etc.), why shouldn't we trust Him to protect us from anything else the enemy may send our way. God really does have this all under control if we have asked Him to take care of it. He doesn't need a reminder set on an electronic device to remind Him to take care of something. 

How quickly we forget that God loves us more than we could ever lover ourselves. He made us with a heart like no one else and it hurts Him when we feel like we need to apologize for that. Be who He made you to be period. Don't set your expectations so high that they are higher than His. So many times we expect more out of ourselves and push ourselves to a limit that even He hasn't asked us to do. That's when we end up stressed, physically ill, and frustrated. Take the day as it comes, He has given you the grace for that day nothing more, nothing less. So many times we worry about what tomorrow brings(a meeting or something on the calendar etc. ) that we lose sight of and make a mess out of the gift of today. 

Walking on this journey,

~Melissa