...for they cried out to God

       in the battle,

and He granted

          their urgent plea

because they

    trusted in Him.

           1 Chronicles 5. 20

(Everyone struggles

               with something.

But do I stand before the LORD

           in it?

Is that my pattern,

my posture,

my default,

    in the favorable

    and in the hard stuff?

First response

        or last resort?

When we trust in God,

there is

     always a different journey,

     always a different outcome,

     always a different victory,

sometimes unexpected,

sometimes in mystery,

sometimes what we

               cannot yet see.

But He is with us

         all the way.)

O LORD,

You know what You are doing.

    Imagine that.

It is not random.

It is not beyond Your sovereignty.

It is not unknown to You.

Only that which is

      divinely anointed

    and divinely appointed.

Even in the ordinary,

even in the trenches,

even in what would astonish,

     if we only could see

     what surrounds us

-- Your eternal purposes,

    Your profound designs,

    Your glory in this.

Help us

         to trust You

as You unfold this day.

You are in this.

Even this.