A New Day Is Coming!

Have things been trying for you lately?  For me I feel like I am one of the Hebrew children thrown into the firey furnace because I won't serve the god of this world.  It is probably true with anyone who believes in Jesus Christ that there will come some kind of struggle related to their faith in Him.  One of the nice things about watching a movie that you have already seen, is that you know how it ends. There are some movies I have watched many times because I love the story line, even though I know how it ends.  The story of God's redemption should have the same effect on us.  We love the story line, and we definitely know how it ends.  I want to encourage you today that even when the battle seems to be overwhelming, there is a God that is bigger than your mountain of woes. I think the biggest issue for me when life is hard is, "God are you with me in this?"  "Do you see what's going on here, and why can't you intervene and make it go away?"  If I know He is there, and the assurance that He isn't going anywhere, then I can face anything.  At the end of the day all that matters is that I bring honor to His name by my behavior to others, and that I keep His Word.  In a prayer meeting recently, a friend prayed, "and Lord help us not to behave badly in this situation."  What a great prayer.  It's easy to get caught up in the emotion of the moment and do something stupid that will effect the outcome of our reputation as followers of Christ.  Nothing this world can do to me can affect the place I have in eternity with Him.  Nothing!  My place with God is secure in my trust and faith in Jesus Christ, and with that I can face the challenge set before me. 

A new day is coming. Jesus is preparing to return to this earth, and He is coming at an unexpected time to rule and reign this world from Jerusalem. As this blog has addressed over and over and over again, our first call in our lives is to keep our lives right with God. Jesus said seek ye first the Kingdom of God, because all other things are secondary to that foundational principle. Here is what Jesus said from the Gospel of Matthew.

32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.  33But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. When Jesus comes again to earth and rules from Jerusalem there will be no new day. The new day begins when He returns, and until then we seek Him and His Kingdom first before all things. May God help us to keep this perspective all year long.   Merry Christmas. Keeping it honest and truthfu....K