What sustains you?

What sustains you?

In the course of your day what is it that you depend on?

What sustains you?

What keeps you going?

I know some of the tops answers are...

Coffee, Chocolate, Meat, Healthy treats, Time alone, Talking to people, Work.....

the list is endless.

But this past while I have found that I need more than physical things to sustain me.

I need more than that whole pot of coffee(tho coffee helps).

I am talking about the REAL stuff that sustains me.

The life giving, hope restoring, and heart soothing sustenance.

Lets take a look at what the bible says about that......

PSALMS 3:5 (NIV)

 "I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me."

PSALMS 51:12(NIV)

 "Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me."

PSALMS 55:22(NIV)

"Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall."

PSALMS 89:21(NIV)

"My hand will sustain him; surely my arm will strengthen him."

PSALMS 119:175(NIV)

"Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me."

In each of these scriptures the Lord sustains us.

He gives us strength, he gives us rest, he restores our joy, he willingly takes our cares upon himself, he even sustains us so we can praise him.

Have you ever struggled to praise God in the midst of trials. But yet once you started praising God somehow you had the strength to praise Him and you felt better?

God wants us to depend on Him for sustenance.

He wants us to cry out to him every day to sustain us in the midst of our lives.

NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING is to Big or Little for God.

He can and will give you strength.

 He can and will bring you joy.

He can and will lift you out of the depression.

 He can and will take those cares you pack around like luggage and relieve you of that strain.

God wants to Be what Sustains YOU!!

In our sin we think we just need physical things.

The coffee, the food, the vacation, the money.....whatever it is that we think we need.

But lets be REAL here.

GOD is what you REALLY NEED!

God wants us to depend on him for EVERYTHING!

God wants you to say I NEED you to sustain me today. 

God wants us to give him our life struggles and FULLY trust him to sustain us.

Yes I have days, lots of them sometimes, that I struggle with this.

Some times a week will go by sometimes a month, some times even longer before I realize that GOD is what I need.

I don't need that list of physical worldly things.

I Just NEED God!

And EVERY time without fail(and I mean WITHOUT FAIL!!) 

Once I turn those things that I am struggling with over to God,

He sustains me. He is what I needed that whole time. Not just for a second or a minute or a hour.

But He is what I needed for every single thing I was struggling with.

So take this one last thought....

That thing you are struggling with whatever it may be....Give it to God.

He WILL sustain you through it.

He will be your rest, your joy, your strength.

He will be exactly what you need,

Blessing to you!