March 22, 2001
"I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you that you fear mortal men,
the sons of men, who are but grass, that you forget the LORD your Maker,
who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth,
that you live in constant terror every day because of the wrath of the oppressor,
who is bent on destruction?
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I have put my words in your mouth and covered you with the shadow of my hand."
Isaiah 51:12-13, 16a
I fear so many things.. here is God's gentle admonishment... why be afraid of man, even the biggest and toughest of them eventually see their end. But God... he alone is eternal and will not be destroyed, he is the one who comforts, he is the one who protects. When I give in to fear I am forgetting who God is.
" Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as sons"
Hebrews 12:7