Last night I gathered with some of my fellow sisters in Christ and watched the webcast of the beginning of Kay Arthur’s Fall Conference. The theme of the conference is about being ready today for what will come tomorrow. I am also in the midst of facilitating a Precept study through the Sermon on the Mount. This week we are in the midst of digging into Matthew 6:19-7:5 which so happens to be discussing about how we are not to worry about tomorrow.
Beloved, since we have no way of knowing what tomorrow might bring the only way we can prepare for the unknown of tomorrow is by immersing ourselves today in the Known.
Our God has left 66 books of hard core truth and promises that have been designed from their delivery to prepare our hearts and minds to trust in Him and Him alone. We live in a world that is always changing and we here in the United States live in a nation that has become unrecognizable from the nation we knew even twenty years ago. Yet one thing has not changed. One thing will always remain. This one thing is what we MUST set our eyes on and rest our hearts and minds in.
But the Lord answered and said to her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.”
Luke 10:41-42
Sitting at the feet of Jesus. Soaking in the Word of God. Seeing life through His eyes. This no one, absolutely no one, can take away from you. It can’t be lost, raped, stolen, or destroyed. Truth is truth. No matter who tries to change it or ignore it.
Jesus is plain when He says, “…blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” (Luke 11:28)
Many in our nation today hear the Word of God and then they try to adapt it to say what it doesn’t say in order to make them more comfortable. God did not call His people to comfort, but to a cross.
If the Word of God has never cut you to the bone, then I dare say you have never truly received it.
If the Word of God never comes in to play outside your Sunday theatre chair or pew, then I dare say you have never truly observed it.
If the Word of God has never been used to decide the course of your choices concerning your own life and the life of those you hold authority over or have the opportunity to influence by association, then I dare say you have never truly believed it.
We never, I repeat NEVER, have to wring our hands in utter desperation and say “I don’t know what to do” if we belong to the ONE TRUE and KNOWN GOD… because He has given us His Word to guide us. It’s there. He’s there. We just have to choose to love Him, believe Him, and obey Him.
That is what faith is…
Then he believed in the Lord; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:6
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By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Hebrews 11:8
Faith is stepping into the unknown because of what is known. If you are reading this today and you stand paralyzed in fear of tomorrow could it be that you have simply not trusted in the Hope of today?
Remember the word to Your servant, In which You have made me hope.
Psalm 119:49
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I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope.
Psalm 130:5
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For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4
The enemy of my soul has tried to use the Lord’s taking of my Daddy and my Sister-in-Love home as a weapon against me. The enemy has tried to use the failure of other believers to be what He has called them to be as a weapon against me. The enemy has tried to take what the Lord could use to strengthen and grow me as an opportunity to cause me to shake my fist in the face of my God and my faith in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but the enemy has failed.
No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17
I will be about my Father’s business until the day He calls me home. I will ready myself today, through the study of and consistent application of His Word, in and throughout every aspect of my life, so that when tomorrow comes I shall not fear. I might stumble at times, but I shall never fall for my God holds me.
He will hold you too beloved. Will you ready yourself?