Living in the Sonrise

 Hello friend! :)  Have you ever struggled to trust God?  I know I have. Sometimes our human nature wants to know what the outcome of something will be, rather than trusting our Heavenly Father to take care of it. Sometimes we want to take things into our own hands, thinking we know what is best. Perhaps one of the most popular Bible verses about trust is Proverbs 3:5-6, which says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.   In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."  Trust is more than a feeling. Trusting in God is a conscious decision to place ourselves- all that we are, all that we desire, all that concerns us- in His hands. Trust involves surrender.  When a child puts their hand into the hand of their father or mother, the child is allowing their parent to lead them where they choose, trusting that they know best. In the same way, when we surrender to God, we are allowing Him to lead us in the way that He ch

Good morning, friends! :) It's a brand new day, and whether or not the sun is shining where you are, I pray the Son is shining in your heart.  One morning last week,  I woke up and remembered that, during the night, a Bible verse had popped into my head. It wasn't a common one, but it was one I had read before and been intrigued by. I thought it was cool that God had given me that verse, though I wasn't totally sure what it meant. The verse was Psalm 84:6, which says, "Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools." What I got from it that day, was that even in the valleys of life, when we are connected with Christ we can make them a well!  But this wasn't the end of what I would gain from that verse... This past Sabbath, I decided to look up the verse on the website Bible Tools ( https://bibletools.info/Ps_84.6 ) and I was astonished with what I found! The part about the "valley of Baca" intrigued me- what wa