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In each case, when the Lord’s instruction was not heeded, the outcome was not favorable.
It is so easy to be carried away, either in fear by the uncertainty of the future, or in ecstasy by the charisma of certain leaders that you can lose yourself.
I do think the young people are the future of the church, but I am willing to take it a step further: I think young are the present of the church.
He saw why Jesus had to come into the world and why He had to die in our stead. He became a new man in Christ with a new set of values and a new way of looking at things. He learned to walk by faith in God rather than by human wisdom.
What seems impossible to man can be accomplished by God. No one else could have restored the people of Israel back to Zion other than God.
“Many things about tomorrow, I don’t seem to understand; but I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.”
Psalms is far more than a book from which to pull pithy statements for greeting cards; it is a divinely inspired model of approaching God and dealing with life’s problems.
Walking with God means to
be faithful, obedient and committed to Him. Or, as Micah wrote in Micah 6:8,
“He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of
you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”
Our natural inclination during these periods of waiting is anxiety at the uncertainty they possess. Here are some things to consider the next time you are made to wait for something in your life.
