Psalms 3:8
Salvation belongeth unto Adonai: thy blessing is upon thy people.
Selah.
After trying to convince her that worry doesn’t pay, a woman jokingly exclaimed, “Oh yes, worry does pay; the things I worry about usually don’t happen!”
Here is the conclusion of the whole matter (Ecclesiastes 1;13). The end of all cares is the knowledge and the assurance that when all is said and done, the Father is in full control of our lives. “His hand is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me,” the old song goes.
Many things happen to us that don’t appear to be within God’s perfect control. It is easy to feel that life is composed of random events coming at us without rhyme nor reason. Looking at it, one could easily conclude that we as individual are a ship left adrift given to its own care and caprices of the wind; that no one is at the helm. But a careful analysis of a life dedicated to faith, prayer and serving God easily proves the contrary. It testifies that whatever happens to us is within God’s perfect control. Therefore, we can always call upon Him with the total assurance of the promise that He . . . . is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
After trying to convince her that worry doesn’t pay, a woman jokingly exclaimed, “Oh yes, worry does pay; the things I worry about usually don’t happen!”
Here is the conclusion of the whole matter (Ecclesiastes 1;13). The end of all cares is the knowledge and the assurance that when all is said and done, the Father is in full control of our lives. “His hand is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me,” the old song goes.
Many things happen to us that don’t appear to be within God’s perfect control. It is easy to feel that life is composed of random events coming at us without rhyme nor reason. Looking at it, one could easily conclude that we as individual are a ship left adrift given to its own care and caprices of the wind; that no one is at the helm. But a careful analysis of a life dedicated to faith, prayer and serving God easily proves the contrary. It testifies that whatever happens to us is within God’s perfect control. Therefore, we can always call upon Him with the total assurance of the promise that He . . . . is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13.
Oh, think of how excited we get when a child in dire need of our help cries out with desperate expectancy and faith that we will rescue him! Even so, the Master is excited when, going head front to an inevitable catastrophe, we let go of control through the sails and wheel, lift up our hands and scream, “Master please save us”. He is elated when in the midst of seeming impossibility, we hold Him to His Word and in a voice of excited anticipation, we proclaim with King David, Salvation belongeth to Adonai. Beloved, that could be the highest illustration of the word: ‘worship’.
Oh, think of how excited we get when a child in dire need of our help cries out with desperate expectancy and faith that we will rescue him! Even so, the Master is excited when, going head front to an inevitable catastrophe, we let go of control through the sails and wheel, lift up our hands and scream, “Master please save us”. He is elated when in the midst of seeming impossibility, we hold Him to His Word and in a voice of excited anticipation, we proclaim with King David, Salvation belongeth to Adonai. Beloved, that could be the highest illustration of the word: ‘worship’.
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