“I will go in the strength of the Lord”

Psalm 71.16

“Go. GO. GO!

Whew!  Sometimes it makes me tired just to think about it!  Even though I do believe, and often say, “Busy people are happy people”, sometimes we just seem to go, go, go - all the time without a break!

“He that walked with wise men shall be wise:

but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”

Proverbs 13:20

Who have we been walking with lately?  Who have we been spending time with?  Who have we been talking to – more importantly – who have we been listening to? 

We must be careful about the company we keep because companions of fools will be destroyed… 

John 5.39

Every few years or so, when I put my head on my pillow at night, I ask myself, “Where will I go if I die tonight in my sleep?”

“If I die tonight, do I know for sure where I will go?  Am I saved?”  I try to imagine that I do not know for sure.  I think about who I really am, as a sinner.  I face myself in all my sin.  The sin easy to see and the sins of my heart – are they gone?  Are they forgiven?

Then I ask myself again, “Am I really saved?”  “Do I know for sure?”

“...quiet from fear...”

Proverbs 1.33

“Knock knock.”  “Who’s there?”  “Fear!”  When was the last time “Fear” knocked on our door?  Who did we send to answer?  Was it Fear’s best mate, Worry?  Or Fear’s brother, Self-Centered?  The next time Fear knocks on our door let’s send this “quiet” little verse to answer the door!

“But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,

and shall be quiet from fear of evil.”

Some people would never believe the word “enjoy” was in the Bible!

Some people believe the Bible is only about the “don’t’s” of life.  You know, “Don’t do this”, and “Don’t do that”.  Some think the Bible is all about the “can’t’s”.  “Can’t this”, and “Can’t that” and “Can’t the other!”

Impossible that the Bible would use the word “enjoy”!

“…yet trouble came.”

Job 3.26

Somehow that doesn’t sound very good

                                                                                     “…yet trouble came.”

Here Job says that he is struggling.  He says -

that his life is difficult and he is seriously and honestly trying to understand why it is so.  

The Anvil of God's Word

“Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.

“‘How many anvils have you had,’ said I,
‘To wear and batter all these hammers so?’
‘Just one,’ said he, and then with twinkling eye,
‘The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.’

“But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that 

we builded

the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation,

and mocked the Jews.

And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews?”

Nehemiah 4.1-2a

"And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man..."

2 Kings 6.17

“...full of deadly poison.” - The Bible

The Bible says that something is... “full of deadly poison”!

What?

What would the Bible say is “full of deadly poison”?

The way the Bible says it is pretty descriptive:

“full

of deadly...

poiiissssssoonnn.”

                                                (Emphasis mine)