Devo from GriefShare e-mails I've been getting the last year and a half...

I've been getting these GriefShare e-mails for the past year and a half..well, approaching two years. I feel like I am still working on my Grief over my Dad, and it is a continual healing process. I have so many questions that are unanswered, and many times I am left with this empty, seeking, searching feeling. Do you know what feeling I am talking about? You feel like the answer, or whatever it is that will make you "complete" is out there in the world somewhere, and you're doing everything to find that "completion"- that peace that comes from understanding. But, the thing about the verse about peace that comes up to me time and time again, is that God wants to give you a peace that SURPASSES all understanding (Phil. 4:7). That means that when we have that PEACE from HIM, we will NOT understand it. It's not finite and something to be grasped intellectually, etc. It's just something that IS. He is the great "I AM". Just knowing HIM and having a relationship with HIM is all we need, and all that will ever satisfy us. Nothing in this world can ever fill us, every bit of it will let us down. Only God can fill and complete us, and give us what we need- we have to cling onto Him and hold tightly to His promises. He is our Savior, our Redeemer, our Rescuer, our Abba, Father! :) Amen.

Now, read the Devo where these thoughts sprung from..

He Gives Himself
Day 199

Because God sees your real need, He wants to give you an answer far better than the answers you seek. You may demand reasons and explanations, but what you need is something more—you need the Lord.

"For in him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).

Think about the astounding reality of this Bible verse. God is all-sufficient for you. Your very being is in Him. You need Him for survival; you do not need answers.

Joni Eareckson Tada says, "Because God is at the center of the universe holding it all together, and because everything in Him moves and breathes and has its being, He can do no more than give Himself. To do anything less is to be less than Himself. Why seek pat, dry, formulized answers when you can actually receive the flesh-and-blood reality of the love of God?"

God would not be God if He were not sufficient for everyone.

God of life, I need You. My loved ones need You. Help me to place You first and ask questions only after I have done so. Amen.