“I DO NOT GIVE TO YOU AS THE WORLD GIVES”

This is the wink from God this morning rereading this verse I shared yesterday:

“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” – John 14:27

That’s exactly what I’m finding from God, He doesn’t give like the world. His love, faithfulness, peace, acceptance, approval, joy, strength, wisdom, happiness, closeness, direction, and favor are so far beyond what we can get from anyone or anything in this world. I love these posts that I found one day in an appointment with God:

“Happiness never came from the dependency upon people; happiness comes from dependency upon Allah/God alone.” – Tumblr.com via believeroftheunseen

“Don’t love people so much; don’t rely on people so much. It is deception, don’t love it, don’t love anything here. Allah (God) has made connections in this world like mother, father, husband, wife or friend to test you. Don’t put too much heart in this matter. – Shaykh Mohammad Akram Nadwi

YOU MUST KEEP EVERYONE IN THEIR PROPER PERSPECTIVE!!! Don’t put too much heart into them. Hold them in their proper place – they are ordinary humans just like you with their own struggles, demons, and challenges. GOD MUST BE OUR NUMBER ONE FOCUS AND PRIORITY – FIRST PLACE IN OUR LIVES. Then, with His love backing us up, we can then love others from His heart, His way, and with His strength. When others hurt, reject, disappoint us, or the world gets to be too much for us, we can immediately shake off the negative emotions (including worry and discouragement), hand them over to God, and focus on God’s love that never runs out. The real us, His children, can never be rejected. And those who hope in Him will not be disappointed! No matter how many times we fall and fail, His love is continuous and unfailing. We can trust His faithfulness.

In fact, these constant falls that I’ve been complaining about, have been so good for me. I’ve fallen directly into the arms of God. Now my life has become, He and I. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, I know who I roll with on the daily: GOD.

And He finds the sweetest ways to let me know He is with me. Like this crazy God nerd here took another picture of my neighbor’s license plate a few days ago because of the word “HUG” that’s special to God and me. I made it my screen saver today, though, on my phone. So, after asking God what page of werollwithgod.com I should go to hear from Him, I got a feeling to go to page 24, and unbelievably, a very ugly picture of myself is there holding up my phone with this very screen saver from the picture of it I took five months ago. It was God’s way of saying, ‘Nik, HUG! I have My arms all around you!’ And around you too! MAKE GOD FIRST PLACE IN YOUR LIFE!

“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you.” – Isaiah 43:2

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