I don’t know who is going to be elected President. I don’t know if I am going to kill an elk this year. I don’t know how many salmon I will catch in Alaska this month. I don’t know what is going to happen in Israel. I don’t know when Jesus is coming. I don’t know when I will die. And a thousand other things that I don’t know no matter how hard I try to figure them out.

Often the unknown drives us crazy as we fret about what will happen in the future. Also we often get very agitated about events in the news because of the level of injustice in the world that we can’t do anything about except pray.

There are about a dozen verses among all those that I have memorized that I pull out of my memory and meditate on almost daily as I live this life, one of them is,

Psalms 37:7 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes.

It is amazing the power that verse has on my mind when I start fretting about things I have no control over, but wish that I could change. God’s Word is supernaturally powerful to give me strength, peace and joy in the midst of the worst circumstances.

Make a goal to memorize a verse or two every month and to meditate on them for just a couple of minutes every day. It will change your life, I guarantee it.