Greetings 👋

How are you today? I have good news. We are not defenseless. We have a God who sees, hears, and rectifies wrongs done against us. Let’s praise our way out of the problem.

“My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart.

God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

If he does not relent, he will sharpen his sword; he will bend and string his bow.

He has prepared his deadly weapons; he makes ready his flaming arrows.

Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.

Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit they have made.

The trouble they cause recoils on them;
their violence comes down on their own heads.

I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness; I will sing the praises of the name of the Lord Most High.”

Psalm 7: 10-17 (NIV).

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How many of us can say this and truly mean it? I can say it, and I do, but am I willing to share in his suffering? God knows!

“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.”
Philippians 3: 7-11 (NIV).

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Here’s what I am meditating on today.

“Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
do not fret—it leads only to evil.”

Psalm 37: 8 (NIV).

There’s plenty to be angry about but very little we can do about most things. We need to pray, listen, and let God be God.