“Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air” - I Cor 9:26 (NIV).
If you follow motor racing, as I do, one of the beauties about it is that as much as the cars are speeding there are headed in a certain direction. There are in a race and their pace is about winning. The drivers are all eyeing ahead fully concentrated on winning. There are busy driving and with s clear goal.
This is important because it is so very easy for one to be busy in life without any direction. Although life is running at full throttle it is like the wind leading to know where. A driver like a reckless teen excited by the machine in his hand pressing hard and flying to nowhere. Till a crush!
In life we need not just to be speeding. You can run your life at full speed. But it is important to be clear of which direction you are headed. For believers that is the treasures of eternal life through faith in Christ. By being clear of this purpose it means that our speed is for a purpose. Not just a rush of adrenalin. Be busy but with a purpose.
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Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, today I pray that where I am busy my life has a purpose!
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03/05/2024 - 04/05/2024 All day“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand” (Isaiah 41:10)
Every now and then one could be gripped with fear because of certain events sweeping before one’s life journey. It could be the finances that are stretched and incomes are no longer certain. Perhaps it is one’s job under threat. Perhaps it is a dreaded health report card. There could be fear about outcome of a matter under judgment and what it might mean to one’s future.
Fear has been elsewhere described as “an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm.” Every life will experience fear at one point. Whenever we are faced with fear it is natural to look for something to grasp on. Sometimes we run for shelter wherever we can find. Perhaps we might seek out a friend for quiet confidence.
But there are those situations when there is no shelter in sight. There are also those cases where those we thought would understand our situation once we share our pain return only hurting and critical feedback. In such moments we might then turn and look within ourselves only to find the energy has all been sapped by this gnawing fear. We feel down and the urge to rise and move on all gone!
“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10) the word of God through prophet Isaiah assures us. But why? It is because the Lord has been there. He himself was faced with fear before his crucifixion but He looked to God.
Charles Spurgeon once wrote when faced with fear always remember, “Nothing is too hard for Him. He can find a way where there is no way. He can give us the idea that will make all the difference.” Psalm 91:2, says, “I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!” So, when faced with fear, look to God to strengthen you. By looking to Him, the Lord will encourage and lift up your spirit, and make a way out of nowhere!
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, today I surrender to you any fear that is in me for I know by looking up to you, you will always make a way out of nowhere, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
