The Perfect Fit

I read a great excerpt from the book Morning and Evening today on the Girl Talk blog. This is a blog that I highly recommend to you. It is done by Carolyn Mahaney and her daughters, and it is just full of wise words and funny stories for women and moms. To check it out go to www.girltalk.blogs.com.
This was so fitting for me as I am often tempted to want to be beyond where I am in life. I need constant reminders that right now I am in the safest, most perfect place, because that is what the Lord has ordained for me.

Here is part of their post for November 3:

“Believer…you should be satisfied with your earthly portion; for you may rest assured that it is the fittest for you. Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition…Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances…Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good. Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Trials must and will befall—
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all;
This is happiness to me.”

Psalm 16:5 (NIV) says, “Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup; you have made my lot secure.” As Elisabeth Elliot comments, “I know of no greater simplifier for all of life.” Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Pub., 1995), 18.