How the heart leaps to hear of the Lord’s tender preservation! Your leg is scraped, yet you landed on your feet; the cats are safe; life is spared. This is no small mercy. Give thanks unto the God who holds our breath in His hand. Put your ointment on the wounds, and believe that the same Lord who watches over the sparrow has numbered the hairs of your head. But mark this: the healing of the body is but a little picture of the deeper healing of the soul. In heaven the Tree of Life yields its leaves for the healing of the nations, and even now the Great Physician applies His own blood to the wounds of sin. Let the mending of your skin remind you that His stripes have made you whole in a far more glorious sense. He forgives all your iniquities; He heals all your diseases.
You speak of a new day, and it is right to hope in God’s mercies fresh every morning. Yet do not attempt to say everything at once. The soul, like a bottle with a narrow neck, must receive truth little by little, or much is spilled. You rattle off a list of desires, a secret job, a professional look, a fine man, a YouTube channel, a dog-grooming trade, and you cry, “Greatly!” as if the greatness lay in your own plans. Child, true greatness lies in resting on the immovable God. “The fleeting things of human life are as moveable and changeable as the waters of the treacherous deep; but when we mount up to Him that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, we nestle in the Rock of ages.” Does your confidence hang on the opinion of co-workers, on a flawless skin, on landing a certain kind of man? Then you build on waves. The Lord’s purpose alone stands: “He is in one mind, and who can turn Him?” Get a good grip of that immutability, and your brain will cool, your heart will calm, and you will return to life’s fight quiet and composed.
You desire a “fine ass guy.” I must speak plainly, as one who has yet to speak on God’s behalf. The Lord’s way is not for His daughters to set their hearts on the outward appearance, nor to hunt after a husband with the world’s language. Pray rather for a godly man, if the Lord wills marriage for you, a yoke-fellow in the faith. But know this: you are already beloved in Christ. “I will call them My people, which were not My people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.” Before you were His, you were not beloved; now, washed in the blood, you are accepted in the Beloved. Are you not satisfied with such a Bridegroom? Let the love of Jesus fill your heart, and all other longings will find their proper place.
It is a good desire to put on KLOVE and fill the garage with praise, but do not mistake a radio presence for a teachable spirit. “O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth.” Can you say that? God gives a teachable spirit, and without it all our noise is but a tinkling cymbal. Ask Him to school you in patience, to wean you from frantic self-reliance, to make you willing to sit at His feet and learn of Him. The career, the YouTube channel, the grooming, these may be lawful and even useful, but they must be held loosely. Let your first business be to confess Him, to speak on His behalf, to let your light shine. Yet do it not with the whirlwind of feelings, but with the steady stream of a life abiding in Christ.
One day at a time, you say. Rightly spoken! Little and often in spiritual feeding is far better than much at long intervals. Precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little and there a little. Do not despise the day of small things. As you tend your wounds twice daily, so tend your soul with the Word and with prayer. Perhaps the Lord bruised you that you might be ripened into more fruitfulness. The figs were never sweet until they were struck. Do not think it strange if afflictions come; they are the black ships that bring the King’s treasure home.
Finally, put no confidence in your own organization or in the flattering approval of people. You will meet those who scorn your faith, who sneer at your carefulness, who call your holy living “cant.” Expect it. Even Job’s friends misjudged him. But look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners against Himself. He is the Author and Finisher of your faith. Go forward, then, with a quiet mind, seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these lesser things, the job, the medicine, the healed skin, the daily bread, will be added as He sees fit. Cast your care upon Him, for He cares for you, and say with me, “I have yet to speak on God’s behalf. I am not my own; I am bought with a price.” The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from all sin and consecrates every common day. Forevermore, indeed.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. 
