Friday, August 3, 2012

HE knew it was coming and HE allowed it...

psalm 91.1-5 (good news), whoever goes to the LORD for safety and protection can say to HIM, “YOU are my defender and protector. YOU are my GOD; in YOU i trust.”  HE will keep you safe from all hidden danger.  you need not fear.

listen, we fear too much because we trust GOD too little.  the more i trust GOD, the less i’m afraid of things. 

JESUS said, “in the world, you will have tribulation.”  that’s a fact of life.  “but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.”  i haven't, but HE has.  JESUS CHRIST has overcome the world.  HE’s got the power.

let me ask you a question about this story in matthew 8.23-27 of the unexpected storm.   do you think that JESUS knew this storm was coming when HE had them get in the boat and set sail?  did HE know in advance the storm was coming?  yes. HE was GOD.  HE knew all things. so if HE knew the storm was coming, why did HE allow it?  if HE knew it in advance, why did HE allow this crisis?  why didn’t HE at least warn those who put their lives in HIS hands? 

because HE wants to teach a truth.  it’s a truth that i have to learn and that you have to learn and it’s a truth that the only way we learn it is by experience. 

i can talk to you all day about it, but the only way you’re going to learn this truth is by experience.  and the truth is this:  CHRIST can be trusted in a crisis.  and the only way you’ll know that is when you go through the crisis and trust HIM.  CHRIST can be trusted in a crisis. 

when you’re going through a trial and when you’re going through a crisis – some of you are heading into one right now, some of you just got out of one, some of you are saying, “when’s the other shoe going to drop?” – you need to remember three basic truths. GOD is always with me, GOD always cares for me, GOD is always in control.

just a thought from the front porch…

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