WHOM SHALL WE SERVE?

Psalm 118:5-7 (TNIV) “When hard pressed, I cried to the LORD; he brought me into a spacious place. The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can human beings do to me? The LORD is with me; he is my helper. I look in triumph on my enemies.”

Have you ever been afraid of anything or anyone? Afraid of a situation perhaps? I have. Many of us have. I think circumstances in our lives have us more afraid than people most of the time, but they are our enemies just the same. Circumstances rob our joy and run away with our peace. What can we do to prevent this? Pray … often … in faith, trusting God to work things out the way they are meant to work out.

Our circumstances do not take God by surprise. It’s not like sits on His throne and says, “Duh, I didn’t see THAT coming.” He is the creator if all things. He knows everything about us. He causes or allows everything that takes place in this universe. If it were no so than something or someone would be greater than Him and He would cease to be God. But that is not the case. Why would He allow such circumstances to befall us? Perhaps they are by your own hand? Perhaps they are there to allow your faith to grow. God has He reasons … He has His divine purposes for everything that takes place. Perhaps the circumstances are the result of some sin in your live; consequences of something you shouldn’t have been doing. Everything we say and do comes with a set of consequences that play out. Every thought that is put into action has consequences.

When people themselves become a threat to us, we must rely on our Heavenly Father all the more. This also has not taken God by surprise. He has allowed it to give you a chance to trust that His word is true and that there is nothing to fear. Truthfully, what can another person do to you? Short of killing you, which may be in retaliation for something you started, what can any man do to you? God is there. He sees it all. There is nothing that He cannot work out for your ultimate good and His glory. It’s what He does. We protect our children to the death, what makes you think it is any different with God. Only He already died on a cross, so He doesn’t have to die again. He is our protector and savior.

Even when our circumstances look bleak; even when the storm clouds are forming and nothing seems to go right … pray. Ask for His help. Thank Him in advance for what He will do and then watch the manifestation of an answer come about. It may not turn out the way WE think it should or the way WE would have wanted it to, but that is where the trust comes in. We must understand that in God’s economy everything has a purpose. There is no wasted motion. Everything happens for a specific reason. We must trust Him in that. He has never failed us. He WILL never fail us. He is our hope and our salvation. He is the only hope and salvation we have. It is God or nothing. What shall it be today? God or nothing.

Joshua 24:15 (TNIV) “But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”

WALK WITH THE KING TODAY AND BE A BLESSING!