Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
Say to those with anxious heart,
“Take courage, fear not.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance;
The recompense of God will come,
But He will save you.”
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the…
Lisa, I agree. If I let my mind wander into the "what-ifs" instead of keeping it on WHO is in charge, the fear can creep in. I love doing word searches in the Bible for victory, triumph, peace, recompense, etc...Here's something I wrote yesterday that has comforted me: "My Jesus is unfathomably patient, gloriously just, and wholly loving, yet He will recompense His enemies in due time and restore to the righteous infinitely more than has been lost." There's an image here:
Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.
Say to those with anxious heart,
“Take courage, fear not.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance;
The recompense of God will come,
But He will save you.”
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the Arabah.
The scorched land will become a pool
And the thirsty ground springs of water;
In the haunt of jackals, its resting place,
Grass becomes reeds and rushes.
A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
*And fools will not wander on it.*
— Isaiah 35:3-8 NASB1995 (Emphasis mine)
God is still on His throne, I will not fear!
Fearing people is a dangerous trap,
but trusting the Lord means safety.
Proverbs 29:25
This is beautiful. So hard not to fear at times
Lisa, I agree. If I let my mind wander into the "what-ifs" instead of keeping it on WHO is in charge, the fear can creep in. I love doing word searches in the Bible for victory, triumph, peace, recompense, etc...Here's something I wrote yesterday that has comforted me: "My Jesus is unfathomably patient, gloriously just, and wholly loving, yet He will recompense His enemies in due time and restore to the righteous infinitely more than has been lost." There's an image here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=751011659925761&set=a.743130997380494
Of course, it’s also on my Substack…if you hate Facebook. 😀
Thank you for the reminder about who is REALLY running the show!
I have to preach to myself quite often. 😬
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