“When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord.”
Deuteronomy 18:9-12
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7
We visited a garage sale in our area on Saturday. Huge home overlooking our lake. The man who owns it is in the oil business. He has homes all over the world. Anyway, the renters of his home were the ones having the garage sale. The house is for sale so they have to move. The renters had a lot of neat wind chimes all over the yard and around the outside of the home. The man renting the home was selling a number of Bibles and other Christian books in the garage sale. I wondered if he ever really knew Jesus and if he was merely backslidden.
Ann and I walked around to the back deck looking at the wind chimes. We found a wooden one we liked and bought it. While we were on the very large deck, the friendly man renting the home came out back. We chatted about the home for a few moments. Then, the man told us why they have all the wind chimes around the house. Without pausing, he said they’re supposed to keep evil spirits away. Ann and I just looked at each other. The man looked like he had fear issues and I wondered what he did for a living to be able to rent such a large, beautiful home.
Anyway, we left and when I got home I couldn’t believe I didn’t share Jesus with the man. I dug out some Christian books for him and plan to take them by there today.
Wow, as the world becomes more and more secularized, fear and the other works of the devil are going to spread. Once people turn their backs on God, in the great falling away the Bible talks about, the vacuum created will be filled with everything else. As the world becomes more hostile, the enemy will have a field day stealing, killing and destroying all those who have lost their discernment and aren’t protected by having a relationship with Jesus, our present day ark, with perfect love.
It’s everything to know Jesus today, saints. It’s everything to trust Him, to thank Him in all things, and to know that He’ll never leave you nor forsake you. It’s everything to know that He’s with you working all things for your good and that you can cast all your cares on Him because He cares for you…
God bless,
Mark