Worthy Brief - 11/21/2023
Friend, the Lord has us covered!
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
When Corrie Ten Boom (author of "The Hiding Place") was a little girl in Holland, her first realization of death came after a visit to the home of a neighbor who had died. It suddenly impressed her that someday her parents could also die. When Corrie went to her father about her concern, he comforted her with these words of wisdom. "Corrie, when you and I go to Amsterdam, when do I give you your ticket?" "Why, just before we get on the train," she replied. "Exactly," her father said, "and our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need--just in time."
Many of us don't think about it but we, as humans have such a problem with fear -- fear that God won't come through when we're in need. We want insurance -- insurance for our cars, insurance for our houses, for our health, and for our lives. We want to be ensured that we’ll be okay if something happens. It has become our way of life in the western world.
Now, we're not saying go and cancel all your insurance plans -- but at the same time, God wants us to trust in His provision in our time of need!
Recently, in our time while we're 're-deployed' in the States, we are truly learning the meaning of 'never early, never late.' We've been in the States longer than we've been in 20 years, and we've not been scheduling any speaking engagements more than two weeks out. And yet, we've not gone a single weekend where we were not speaking and sharing.
Friend, every single day since we have been here our faith has been tested and time and time again, God has provided for us in ways we could never conceive -- physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and in every other way -- never early, never late -- always just when we need it.
We need not fear anything that is before us. God will give us the strength to endure anything that comes our way. He has our ticket!
Your family in the Lord with much agape love,
George, Baht Rivka, Obadiah and Elianna (Dallas, TX)
(Baltimore, MD)
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