Alistair Begg

There are moments throughout life that demand a decision. And, as pastor and author Rico Tice says, “We are the choices that we make.”

I know you. Your name is written on the palm of My hand. And as surely as I cared for Naomi and Ruth, I'm looking after you too (see Isaiah 49:16). God is sustaining and guiding His children.

Where do you turn when the waves hit, when the wheels run off the road, when everything goes haywire? It must be to your knowledge of who God is and how He deals with His people. This is a sure foundation on which to stand. Where else can we go?

As we get up and take action, we can trust that God is not idle. He's working everything according to His will (Romans 8:28), not as a package that is let down from heaven on a string but as a scroll that unrolls day by day as we walk through life. His favor in the ordinary things of life keeps us marching for another day. Your day may not look exciting or glamorous. You may not be sure how you will overcome what confronts you. But it is the day that God has given you, and He will give you all you need to do all He calls you to.

What often appears to us to be a mess of knots is just the back view of the tapestry God is weaving.

If Christ has truly come into your life as Lord and Savior, your faith should echo throughout every moment. Don't approach “time with God” only as a fifteen-minute daily meeting, hoping that that will sustain you for the rest of the day. You'll never be able to bring others into the presence of a God in whose presence you do not live. Speak of Him in your conversation. Bring His presence and promises to mind in the small triumphs and difficulties of your day. Seek to form a habit of conversing with Him throughout your waking hours. Live with an awareness of God's presence, and it will show in your routines and reactions.

Only a heart that knows it is unworthy of grace will be appropriately amazed by receiving it. Ruth was a hard worker.

You and I are called to be bridges that span the gap between the experience of isolation and a life of divine acceptance.

The grace of God for His people knows no bounds and remains within no limits. To know the truth of this, we need look to nowhere else than the cross of Christ, by which “we have redemption through his blood.”

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity , and why do you idly look at wrong?