HERE<\/a>, but below are a few verses that I am returning to when I need to remember that even when it doesn’t look like it, He is the one who is in control and he will lead to a far better outcome than I can picture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
3 Trust in the Lord and do good;<\/p>\n
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5 Commit your way to the Lord;<\/p>\n
trust in him and he will do this:<\/p>\n
6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,<\/p>\n
your vindication like the noonday sun.<\/p>\n
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7 Be still before the Lord<\/p>\n
and wait patiently for him;<\/p>\n
do not fret when people succeed in their ways,<\/p>\n
when they carry out their wicked schemes.<\/p>\n
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8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;<\/p>\n
do not fret\u2014it leads only to evil.<\/p>\n
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23 The Lord makes firm the steps<\/p>\n
of the one who delights in him;<\/p>\n
24 though he may stumble, he will not fall,<\/p>\n
for the Lord upholds him with his hand.<\/p>\n
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Trusting in Him,<\/p>\n
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I have been discouraged lately. In politics, social media, schools, and even in churches, cultural wars have broken out and I cannot picture how peace will prevail. Health issues with friends and family and issues related to disaffiliation compound the discouragement. I want to fix things that are mostly out of my control. The thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,113,354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-news","category-newsletters","category-the-fount-account"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9467,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>The thing is, I know that when I\u2019m feeling this way, and it is affecting my emotional and physical health, I\u2019m carrying things that are not mine to carry. I tell myself to \u201clet it go\u201d,\u00a0 and \u201cgive it to God\u201d, but my concern and sense of justice make it hard for me to do. I keep having to\u00a0 \u201clet it go\u201d and \u201cgive it to God\u201d over and over again.<\/p>\n