The Red Words are the COOLEST!!

So, I had sort of a rough day (not sure why)... and the honest to goodness truth... (don't remember all that I was upset about). Either way, I call my sister on my way home from taking a grueling history test looking for encouragement because she seems to always have something uplifting for me :) I ask her what she is doing and she said that she and Josh were looking up scriptures. Then it reminded me!!!... and all the sudden I just popped and and starting singing "the red words are the coolest, their the ones that Jesus said", and Jamie and Josh start laughing. YES! I LISTEN TO VEGGIE TALES!!! But then it got me to thinking... just how TRUE this line from the silly song album really is.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

and

Matthew 6:25-34 "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble"

So... these red words stand out to me... God is telling me that no matter what "bad day" I THINK I may have had... it is nothing. His grace is sufficient, his power is almighty, and he loves me.

I know this next one doesn't fall in the "red words" category, but it was the last that spoke to me to calm the day I was having:

Romans 8:31 What, then shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

That one sums it up. With God by my side... nothing else even matters.

I love you my precious Lord. Thank you for reminding me through your word that you love me too. Thank you for the saints you have sent to lift us up to you through prayer.

Until next time....
Ang