June 27th: The Day After

Funny how life works sometimes. Last week, I wrote about living like today is your last. About urgency, conviction, and bold faith. And I meant every word.

But then came the next day. And I woke up full of doubt.
Anxious. Overthinking. Worrying about my future. Caught in the trap of trying to figure out MY plan—not trust HIS purpose.

It was like whiplash. How could I go from proclaiming truth to wrestling with fear in less than 24 hours?

But maybe you’ve felt that too.

We proclaim the Gospel with confidence…then crumble when things feel uncertain.
We say we trust Jesus, but our peace depends on how our plans are going.
We pray “Your will be done”, but live like ours better be.

And in that tension, the Lord brought me to this:

“Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.” - 1 Peter 4:19

That verse stopped me in my tracks.

Because my anxiety didn’t come from trusting God—it came from trusting me.
I was building my life around MY vision, MY timeline, MY expectations. And when things felt fragile, so did I. As simple as that sounds…it was hard to feel.

But Peter reminds us: even in suffering, even in uncertainty, we can entrust our souls to a faithful Creator.
Not a distant god.
Not an absent Father.
A faithful Creator who formed us and hasn’t stopped holding us.

And the beginning of that chapter hits just as hard:

“Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking… so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.” - 1 Peter 4:1-2

That’s it. I was anxious because I was living for human passions—even good ones—when God was calling me back to His will:
He was asking me to surrender, not spin.
To trust, not try to control.
To stop chasing peace from plans and start finding peace in Him.

So if your week has been full of noise, stress, or fear, pause.
Don’t look further ahead. Look up.

The call today is simple, but not easy: Entrust your soul to a faithful Creator. Live for His will, not yours.

He’s steady…even when we’re not.

I hope you all have a great day, and God bless.

-Brady Baker