Tuesdays Blog - Peace and Safety

Tuesday’s Blog – Peace and Safety!

Lamentations 1:1 – How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow is she, who was great among the nations! The Princess among the Provinces has become a slave (Forced laborer).

Bible Challenges and Comments

God is The God of Peace, The God of Promise and The God who Provides; there is not a day that has gone by in the life of this earth in that God has not given to all of Creation peace, promise and provision.

Matthew 6:19-34 – "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

There are five Laments over Jerusalem by the prophet Jeremiah as he watches and recalls the receding blessing of God and the increase of trouble on the nation. It seems that I am caught between a rock and a hard spot. Wanting to talk of blessing and forgiveness and also knowing that we as a nation are being chastised by God for all the sin that we have committed in His face. By the way, all of that sin is forgiven by the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; John 3:16.

But this one thing I know, God understands the helpless estate that is the face of the nation today and He knows how to correct it. But have you noticed? The leadership of our nation still believes they can save the sinking ship without God! When I seek to warn or speak harshly to anyone who may want to listen, I try to find some area of scripture to back me up. There is a problem with this, don’t you know! As when I begin to share my woes – the LORD through the very Word I am reading says:

Lamentations 3:22-26 – Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. "The Lord is my portion," says my soul, "Therefore I hope in Him!" The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Therefore, while the nation melts in the boiling pot of rebellion against God, let your soul know that the LORD is your portion and that your hope is in Him. the SOUL that seeks the LORD, He will grant deliverance with peace and salvation.