Keep your lives free from the love of
money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
"Never will I leave you; never
will I forsake you."
So we say with confidence,
"The Lord is my helper; I will not
be afraid.
What can man do to me?"
Hebrews 13:5-6
My assurance is to be
built upon God’s assurance to me. God says, “I will never leave you,” so that
then I “may boldly say, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear’ ” (Hebrews
13:5-6). In other words, I will not be obsessed with apprehension. This does
not mean that I will not be tempted to fear, but I will remember God’s words of
assurance. I will be full of courage, like a child who strives to reach the
standard his father has set for him. The faith of many people begins to falter
when apprehensions enter their thinking, and they forget the meaning of God’s
assurance— they forget to take a deep spiritual breath. The only way to remove
the fear from our lives is to listen to God’s assurance to us.
What are you fearing?
Whatever it may be, you are not a coward about it— you are determined to face
it, yet you still have a feeling of fear. When it seems that there is nothing
and no one to help you, say to yourself, “But ‘The Lord is my helper’ this very
moment, even in my present circumstance.” Are you learning to listen to God
before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God’s Word
fit what you have said? Take hold of the Father’s assurance, and then say with
strong courage, “I will not fear.” It does not matter what evil or wrong may be
in our way, because “He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you….’ ”
Human frailty is
another thing that gets between God’s words of assurance and our own words and
thoughts. When we realize how feeble we are in facing difficulties, the
difficulties become like giants, we become like grasshoppers, and God seems to
be nonexistent. But remember God’s assurance to us— “I will never…forsake you.”
Have we learned to sing after hearing God’s keynote? Are we continually filled
with enough courage to say, “The Lord is my helper,” or are we yielding to
fear?
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