Look Up

Have you heard or read, look up to change a mood? This is quite the challenging task when my head, your head, hangs low with the heaviness of gloomy thoughts. When in the throws of despair, the plaintive soulful cry is faith, don't fail me now. It is faithfulness that has one look up from sorrow, believing that circumstance and situation is dynamic, changeable, and that mysteriously mood, attitude and thoughts can and do, change outcomes. Philippians 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Scripture requests an attitude of supplication with thanksgiving through prayer. The promise of peace in the heart, in the mind is stunning as a reward for this approach to pain. What if though, Dear Reader, you fear not for yourself? What if you fear for a loved one, someone entrenched that you want desperately to reach, pull from the muck? It may seem no prayer is available, no prayer applicable, as though this particular circumstance has never been addressed before. This is how it appears sometimes, does it not, Dear One? Look Up...the instructions are clear, built into our physiology. Look up and once you have looked up, look high, look low, look around corners and into crevices until you find what it is you are looking for Mark 9:29 And he said to them, "This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer." Back to prayer we are. We have travelled the round about and here we stay because there is something so mighty about prayer as to make it a life line, an answer to every query, every grinding life halting test. And now this, look up from your place on the ground, where you find yourself begging for a holy outcome, a Godly response, confirmation of Him in control of every and all circumstance, including the soul(s) you so desperately long to be united with. Stand now, as you look up and into the eyes of Love. He has heard, He has seen and He has promised Mark 11:24 "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." May you know the peace of God through prayer, that surpasses all understanding, this very day.