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Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and now for evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. 13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Him who give me strength

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

These are some of my favorite verses, giving me comfort when I need to remember that I can trust the Lord, even when I do not know what is going on in my life. On the hard days, when I don't know what to do with myself, I can go back to these verses and remember that I have read them before and they have been true. I can do what they tell me in the hard times again, and I can trust that God will be faithful. In the good times, I like going back to them and seeing that, yes, God was faithful. I can see that so far, there has been a plan for my life and He has definitely been leading it. I can see that He gives me strength for the hard times, moments when I have wanted to give up. I can see that talking to Him continually and giving thanks for whatever I can think of has helped me keep my sanity.

Today, I am thankful that He gives me verses I have committed to my memory. I am thankful for His Word, even when I am not in it every day. I am thankful that I can go back to it whenever I want, that He loves me despite my laziness, my apathy, my lack of desire to make myself do anything. And I am thankful that today, right now, I am inspired to know Him more, to be better than I have been in the past...

My prayer is that He will constantly renew my desire to be more like Him, to be in His Word, and to have the energy to get up and spend time with Him. I am thankful that today, when a distraction came, I found a way to press on, writing this entry and taking these few more minutes to remember that my God, the Lover of my Soul, loves me back and wants to be with me and know me deeply.