Pilgrim’s Progress: The Lions (3:9)
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
The lions were powerless to touch him because one greater had beckoned him forward.
When the Bible says “do not be afraid”, it is a warning against allowing our fear to rule us, not having a healthy natural reaction to our circumstances.
Suicide is not the act of nobility or of courage. Real courage would face up to our mistakes and failures and find a way through them. Real nobility seeks to inspire the change they would like to see rather than escape the changes they fear.
It wouldn’t be worthy of respect if I could kick the dog without fear of retaliation. In the same way, when we do evil or dishonor God, of course there will be consequences. The power and goodness of God demand it. By definition, we should and do have a fear, a healthy reverence of God.
Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us. (Philippians 3:13-14) Read: Isaiah 66:1-24, Philippians 3:4-21, Psalm 74:1-23, Proverbs 24:15-16 Relate: I had about a hundred dollars to my name when I left for Texas.…
My heart pounds as I think of this. It trembles within me. Listen carefully to the thunder of God’s voice as it rolls from his mouth. It rolls across the heavens, and his lightning flashes in every direction. Then comes the roaring of the thunder— the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain…
The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents. They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?” His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,…
Why did it take an untrained boy who was unfamiliar with the situation and untrained in the methods of conventional warfare to destroy Goliath?
All too often we want to know what all the steps are going to be before we ever begin to march.
Even though we have been walking through the valley of the shadow of death does not mean we have any cause to give in to fear.