In Conclusion

Today's devotional sums up the past 30 days.  Trusting God, seeking Him through trials and tribulations, receiving His peace, casting all of our fears and anxieties on Him, and receiving all the blessings He wants to bestow on us.  He works in mysterious ways, but His ways are good and beneficial to us.

Taste and see that He is good.  The more intimately we experience Him, the more convinced we become of His goodness.  He is the living one who sees us and longs to participate in our lives.  He is training us to find Him in each moment and to be a channel of His loving presence.  Sometimes His blessings come to us in mysterious ways:  through pain and trouble.  At such times we can know His goodness only through our trust in Him.  Understanding will fail us, but trust will keep us close to Him.  Thank Him for the gift of His peace.  He knows this is our deepest need:  to calm our fears and clear our minds.  Listen to Him.  Tune out other voices so that we can hear Him more clearly.  Draw near to Him; receive His peace.

Psalm 34:8; Genesis 16:13-14; John 20:19; Colossians 3:15