Thoughts for another day


October 6, 2010

Today's verse: 2 Tim. 2:12. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day. (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

What is it that ails your mind, you who have placed your trust in God? This is the constant refrain in my mind urging me to remove the streaks of doubt that plague it when I'm in a spot and the future looks bleak and hard to comprehend. Life seems to be lost in a swamp leading to unbelief even as the manifold winds of fright and depression encompass me bringing in its wake, frustration and dismay.

And this Scripture immediately comes to taunt me as it were: 'who have you believed in?' Yes, it teases me and it has all the right to tease me for look at the essence of the message that's in it – it's simply amazing! Why amazing one might ask and in answer I'll say, who is the God I believe in? Is He Someone who created the world? Is He the One Who with a Word creates and brings into existence the things that don't exist? Is He the Awesome God whose throne is heaven and footstool the earth? Is He all in all and the God who existed all along; who is and who is to come? Did He come down to earth and die for my sake so I could spend eternal life with Him? Yes, is this the God I believe in or is it a piece of stone, or a blob of wood that's fashioned by hand?

If I have believed in the One God who can bring about all things by the power of His Word and for whom there's nothing impossible, then what am I worried about. He asks me, 'can you by worrying add a moment to your life?' Then, why do I worry, particularly because He said, 'I am with you always even to the end of the age' and before that He told me, 'See, I've carved you in the palm of My hand.' This, so that I'll always be before Him, never out of His sight. You know another beautiful thing is that our God is the One who forgives sins and looks upon us with mercy and love. And truly my friend if I've believed in Him, then I will say, 'even though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil…for You my God are there!'