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Not Afraid

On By vickleaIn Scripture4 Comments

Last week as I struggled to breathe, I must confess that I was fearful. All kinds of doubts assailed me. The problem with growing up as an asthmatic is that I have learned all of the things that can go wrong and when I should head to the hospital. Once I was diagnosed with Influenza B, I knew I had to start my breathing treatments because this virus attacks the respiratory system. So I did…but I didn’t get better. I was up most of every night coughing and doing breathing treatments every couple of hours as I wheezed my way through the nights. After four days of that, I returned to my doctor, was diagnosed with bronchitis and received antibiotics and steroids. Praise God for a doctor who listened to my lungs and was not afraid to approach me! Anyway, I have not gotten better right away. It’s. a process, but God has constantly reassured me that He has not left me and since He gave me the breath of life to begin with, I can depend on Him to continue to help me breathe until He calls me home. This verse today in my devotional is a reminder of where I was last week and where I am now. Still coughing a little, still using breathing treatments several times a day, but so thankful that God has not abandoned me and for His promise that He will always be with me.

The Godless

On By vickleaIn Scripture4 Comments

As we look around today’s increasingly sinful world, it is sometimes easy to get discouraged and think that God is not paying attention. Oh, but He is! He sees the things that we cannot see and His Word tells us the fate of the godless, those who appear to be prospering and destroying the morals of our world with their own sinful desires.

Notice that the verse says that the godless SEEM like a lush plant, thriving in the sunshine and spreading out. Just as the sinful seem to be doing, right? Their sin is spreading and becoming more acceptable. But look under the surface at what is really happening. Their roots are going down through stones, ending in a bed of rocks. They cannot survive there because they have no soil to feed and nourish them. The fate of the godless is to ultimately disappear. God looks, sees and is not concerned about their having a lasting effect on His kingdom because they will not be part of the eternity He has planned for those of us who believe. Rooted and grounded in His Word, we will stand and they will be as thought they never existed.

Although it seems at times that God has stepped back from the evil in the world and is just letting it run rampant, we have to remember that He has not abandoned us. He is just waiting for the godless to realize that their plans to destroy His good creation will come to nothing. Meanwhile, He encourages us to persevere in worship, studying His Word and prayer. All things work out for good in the end. That’s a promise that we can count on!