Your God Will Come and Save You
Isaiah 35:4
(Complete Jewish Bible)
Say to the
fainthearted, “Be strong and unafraid!
Here is your God; He will come with vengeance;
with God’s retribution He will come and save you.”
Here is your God; He will come with vengeance;
with God’s retribution He will come and save you.”
The news is
filled with gloom and doom. Each piece of
bad news follows on the heels the last. Stock
market reports that fluctuate daily, scandals, terrorism, disease, war, riots, tornadoes,
hurricanes, earthquakes, floods - the list goes on and on. There is so little good news being reported it
can cause depression and worry in even the strongest Christian. What the unbeliever does in the face of this
onslaught of bad news I cannot imagine.
But I say to
believers – fear not!
We, as
believers, don't have to live in fear of what is to happen next. We don't have to sit around worrying about the
world's financial system. We don’t have
to agonize over who will win the next election.
We don't have to allow ourselves to let all the situations going on
emotionally drain us to the point of depression. Just read this verse and focus on two words in
it: “your God.” Your God is Lord. Your God has never resigned His position as
God Most high, Creator of Heaven and earth.
Heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool.
This verse
speaks to those who are the faithful. This
message is for the blood-bought of God.
What this promises you is that no matter what happens, He is on your
side and He has your back.
I’m not
promising you that hard times will never come your way. I’m not saying that you will never find
yourself in difficult times and be confused about why things are happening to
you the way they are happening. We live
daily in this evil world and evil things happen all around us. But if you walk through this world with your
hand in God’s hand, you will find a way through all the troubles ahead.
When Judah
finally fell into captivity by Babylon, Daniel was taken prisoner and sent to
live in exile in Babylon. But he was
faithful to God and lived a holy life and he survived and prospered. He received grace every day. Ezekiel, likewise, was taken to Babylon as a
prisoner. He, too, remained faithful to
God and lived a holy life and God prospered him and he received grace. Whatever happens to America when God judges
our nation, we have to be faithful to God and live holy lives and God will be
with us and hold us in His hand and we will receive grace in abundance.
In Acts we see
the apostles beaten and some were killed.
Yet they lived holy lives and remained faithful to God and they turned
their world upside down. (Or, rather,
right-side up.) Daniel ended up second
to his sovereign and later was one of three governors of the next kingdom. Joseph was sold into slavery and ended up
second to Pharaoh. Just imagine where
you can end up if you live a holy life dedicated to God.
You may, and
probably will, go through storms. The
world is getting more and more wicked and you will see things that will shock
you until your shock-center burns out.
But remain faithful and keep yourself holy. God will give you much grace.
Fear is our
enemy in these troubled times. Fear is
one of the devil's greatest weapons. If
he can get us to fear, it can bring doubt into our hearts and minds. If we doubt what God has done, is doing and
will do, the devil has a foothold in our lives. Don't accept fear into your heart. God is only a prayer away and He will comfort
you and calm your fears and give your mind rest.
Again I say to you:
“Fear not!
Your God will come and He will save you.
Stephen Cram October 20, 2013
Beware lest
any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, following the tradition
of men according to the rudiments of the world, and not in accordance with
Christ. Colossians 2:8
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