My last post was regarding my concern for this next week. This morning I got up and read October 30 out of Springs in the Valley (compiled by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman) and realized that I need not fear tomorrow. I need simply do what God has made clear to me to do (eat properly and take those thoughts captive!!!) but the battle, the emotions, the isolated feeling, that battle is not mine! Here is the devotion I read:

"Not yours, but God's" (2 Chronicles 20:15)
There are times when doing nothing is better than doing something. There are the times when only God can do what is needed. True faith trusts Him then, and Him alone, to do the miracle. Moses and Jehoshaphat knew this secret; they knew the same Lord and the same divine grace.

As the pursuing Egyptians trapped the helpless Israelites at the Red Sea, Moses said: "Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD . . . The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." (Exodus 14:13, 14)

As the Moabites and the Ammonites, a vast multitude, closed in on Judah, King Jehoshaphat said to the helpless people: "Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD." (2 Chronicles 20:15, 17.)

When God alone can win the victory, faith lets God do it all. It is better to trust than to try. - S. S. Times

Faith Is the Victory that Overcomes
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The battle is not yours, but God's;
Therefore why fight?
True faith will cease from struggling,
And rest upon His might:
Each conflict into which you come
Was WON on Calvary,
Tis ours to claim what Christ has done,
And "hold" the victory.
- H. E. Jessop.

"Hold thee still." "And this," says St. Jerome "is the hardest precept that is given to man: inasmuch as the most difficult precept of action sinks into nothingness when compared with this command to inaction."