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God Is In Control
Contributed by Charlie Roberts on Feb 20, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: God wants our hearts to be at rest and established by His grace toward us! That’s where and when we find inner peace! It’s not about what you can do, it never has been about what you can do...
Illustration by Alan Tison
Children have a way of controlling our life do they not – I heard about a young boy who received a harmonica for Christmas from his uncle. After the first of the year he saw his uncle for the first time since receiving the harmonica.
With a large smile he said, “Thanks for the harmonica you gave me for Christmas," "It’s the best present I ever got."
"That’s great," replied his uncle. "Do you know how to play it?"
"Oh, I don’t play it," the little fellow replied. "My mom gives me a dollar a day not to play it during the day and my dad gives me five dollars a week not to play it at night!"
The older a person gets, The more he or she can relate to what every generation has thought or said one time or another. What in the world is this younger generation thinking.
This isn’t the world I grew up in. Well when I was a kid they actually taught a patriotic curriculum in school. They taught the truth, they didn’t try to make up and change history, they taught history!
Parents were Parents and kids were to be seen and not heard. These parents today Need to realize they don’t need friends, they need to be parents! What’s going to happen when we’re gone? Who’s going to step up and fill our shoes in the workforce?
In every generation, the accuser has reinvented the same old lies of doom and gloom. Only his tactics are more overt and have gotten more brash and unbelievable, to the point of far to many have come to believe the lies!
God knew there would be chaos and times of uncertainty in the world. That’s why God gave us a relevant word, for every situation and for every generation!
Romans 13:1 NKJ
Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God
Well, do you know who the president is? Yes and more importantly God knows who the president is. And God knew who the president was eight years ago, 10 years ago and 100 years ago!
Well I don’t like the way he’s doing things. The same has been said of prior presidents, of prior kings and monarchs, of just about every elected or appointed official since the beginning of time!
God’s promises are relevant and God’s words are timely for every occasion and every generation!
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
So many people around the world, are worried from one world catastrophes and elections, and the consequences of them to the next.
They live their lives in fear and the way they act is ruled by what happens on the news and they are told to believe.
Their afraid of this and that, what will happen, what won’t happen and what someone might think may happen.
For too many are worried about what they own, while forgetting the fact, God owns it all!
God instructs us to not worry about what will happen, but to trust His plan for our lives! TBS. “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
If you watch the news all the time, it’s a minute by minute saga of the relentless attack of the devil on all of humanity!
You have to really use discernment and trust the Lord, that He is in control of every situation.
Sometimes I think Christians need to be reminded, as long as God is on their side, there is nothing that come against them, no matter what is reported or how bad things may seem to be.
Not earthquakes, not hurricanes, not revolts or uprisings in other lands, not government misspending or whatever the price of oil decides to go to, or record breaking temperature changes of hot or cold, or anything else the father of all lies can conjure up!
God has already made provision for every situation that we will ever come up against and nothing can alter Gods plan for His people or His Triumphant Return!
As Christians, we need to grasp hold of the Word, the Grace and Peace God has both already and continually supplied and hang on to His Word at all times.
The devil doesn’t want us to know the promise of the Word, or remember its benefits! Because there is so much peace and comfort to be had from the truth and power revealed by the Word! That’s why he’s been fighting it ever since he was expelled from heaven.
