Bible in a Year:
Jeremiah 1–2, 1 Timothy 3
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this.
Psalm 37:5
God doesn’t help those who help themselves; He helps those who trust in and rely on Him. Jonathan Roumie—the actor who plays Jesus in the successful TV series The Chosen, which is based on the Gospels—realised this in May of 2018. Roumie had been living in a big city for eight years, was nearly broke, had enough food just for the day, and had no work in sight. Not knowing how he would make it, the actor poured out his heart and surrendered his career to God. “I literally [prayed] the words, ‘I surrender. I surrender.’ ” Later that day, he found four cheques in the post and three months later, he was cast for the role...