Monday, August 6, 2012

Trusting Jesus




   Recently I was encouraging my Brother. He was discouraged due to the signs of the end played on the news everyday. he wants a chance to have a life too, he says. I told Him to sit down.
    Now, I bored you with the details, but really, I want to share what God taught me and Him that day.

     1.We have to trust God   

George Muller
        There are a lot of things that we say wee need to worry about, but God says otherwise.
   " Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" Mat. 6:25. 
  Things look bleak. the Economy is crashing, people are scared, buying gun and gold. but these things , in the end, won't really protect us. We must rely fully on God, as the Israelites did in the dessert. George Muller, from the 1800's, was a man who had much faith. His faith In God was seen as rediculous by on standers, especially his wife. on more than one account, God Provided needs immediately based on his faith. once, he was in his home with his wife. they were very poor. 
"we don't have any food, George." his wife complained.
"Set the table" he said.
"but, why? we have nothing to eat, don't you hear me?"
 "set the table" So she did, then they sat down, and george prayed. "thankyou lord, for the food you are about to provide." his wife looked at him. as he said amen, a knock was heard at the door. george's wife answered it. an old woman was standing there with a ham. 
  "i just felt I had to bring this here" the woman said. 

 We can trust God just the same as George muller. He is able and willing to provide our needs. (story may not be word for word or exact setting accurate, but it is real)



     2. Even if we  are here during the end times, we would be able to experience some of God's most marvelous works.

        People always ask about the rapture. we discuss when we think it will happen or won't happen. But I think most of us agree on one amazing fact: Just imagine the marvelous works we will see if we are here for part of the end times. just as the Jews in Egypt, God protects his people. we could be affected by some of it, but God would likely protect us from evil during those times if we are indeed here. we would see so much protection, as the family who had angels guarding their house in Waslala as the guerrillas came  
to kill them, or How Esther Ahn Kim's friend was able to be a wanted christian (to go to jail) and have police men button his jacket! How many protection stories will there be in this time? (I am speaking figuratively, not prophetically, lest I accidentally add to the book of the revelations, let's not do that!) not That every christian will be divinely spared from pain or death, as There were always times of martyrdom throughout the ages, but What a gift to be able to die for our Lord?

     I hope this encourages you. do not worry about the trials we have, because God is so much bigger than it. do not worry about people raiding your food or stealing,  or even dying of hunger during the lack of food and all the dry weather, But rather lean on God, your loving Father and Protector
     ~Delighted daughter