Give Me a Break!
I know you are asking, as I am; How did this happen? What is going to happen? How are we going to make it?
I may not have the best answers to those questions but the state of this world reminds me of the world Jeremiah lived. Jeremiah felt frightened and insecure-but he burned with a message! The LORD told J. not to be afraid, go where I tell you to go and say what I tell you to say. I feel like a J. of today. I may not be saying anything to the nations and only a few people may ever read this blog but I have to go and say what I hear the LORD saying in my spirit.
I opened to Jeremiah 9:2 and I couldn't believe what I read....J. was actually wishing that he had a B & B in the dessert that he could run and hide in because of the stupid people around him. "Oh that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people"
Does that not sound like what many of us wish for when life gets too hard? That's how I felt this morning thinking about the world around me. Christian's being killed, mass murders every where, children held captive, mother's crying for their lost sons and daughters, people dying of illnesses that we didn't even know existed 50 years ago. What in the world!
Instruction comes from Jeremiah 12:16-17
"And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name. The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people. BUT if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD"
Basically, Know the One and Only True Living God, Jehovah and you will be saved. We must pray for our nation, and God's people to lay down other idols and come back to knowing Him. He will protect and preserve His own!!!!!
So, we may want to take a break and run away sometimes but there is peace in knowing that God is a faithful God and He will never leave us nor forsake us.
"Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsade thee." Deut. 31:6
LORD, help us be strong in you and leave all fear and doubt behind us! Break off all that binds!
In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla