Jun
7
The Three R’s
No matter how things seem in your life- God is Still all about rescue, redeem and restore.
So remember the 3 R’s today and thank Him for His goodness and greatness. For they are Bigger than whatever is before you or behind.
Psalm 124
God the Protector of His People
1 What if the Lord had not been on our side? Answer, O Israel!
2 “If the Lord had not been on our side when our enemies attacked us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive in their furious anger against us;
4 then the flood would have carried us away, the water would have covered us,
5 the raging torrent would have drowned us.”
6 Let us thank the Lord, who has not let our enemies destroy us.
7 We have escaped like a bird from a hunter’s trap;
the trap is broken, and we are free!
8 Our help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
RESCUE Is God’s Plan
On the day Adam and Eve fell from grace, they ran off and hid in the bushes. And God came looking for them. He called to Adam, “Where are you?” (Gen. 3:9). Thus began the long and painful story of God’s pursuit of mankind. Though we betrayed him and fell into the hands of the Evil One, God did not abandon us. Even a quick read of the Old Testament would be enough to convince you that rescue is God’s plan. First with Noah, then with Abraham, and then with the nation Israel, you see God looking for a people who will turn to him from the heart, be his intimate allies once more.
The dramatic archetype is the Exodus, where God goes to war against the Egyptian taskmasters to set his captive people free.
Four hundred years they have languished in a life of despair. Suddenly—blood. Hail. Locusts. Darkness. Death. Plague after plague descends on Egypt like the blows of some unrelenting ax. Pharaoh releases his grip, but only for a moment. The fleeing slaves are pinned against the Red Sea when Egypt makes a last charge, hurtling down on them in chariots. God drowns those soldiers in the sea, every last one of them. Standing in shock and joy on the opposite shore, the Hebrews proclaim, “The LORD is a warrior” (Ex. 15:3). God is a warrior. He has come to rescue us.
An excerpt from
Epic- by John Eldredge
So….No matter what you have or haven’t done, give it to Jesus-
1 Peter 5:7
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Psalm 55:22
Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.
Peace, Jonathan
