Jesus Never Fails

December 1

Here we are, at the threshold of the last month of the year of 2012. Many people enter this month with fear and trepidation because an ancient Mayan calendar concludes on what would be the 22nd day of this month. Many people stand in anxious anticipation of an onslaught by a rogue nation that is on the verge of achieving its nuclear ambitions. Connecting the ancient augur of doom to the modern threat of nuclear annihilation causes much anxiety. So, how do we differ from all people in all times and in all places?

Not much. Imagine the fear of those in the path of the mighty Roman Army with its highly trained soldiers whose skill at wreaking death and leaving destruction in their wake were notorious. How do we differ from those who feared being over-run by the Mongolian hordes or devastated by the Nazi war machine?

Fear has always been a profound factor in the human psyche. Man has always wrestled with the sum of his anxious dread. Whether fear of drought or disease or diabolical oppressors who come to rape and kill and steal and conquer—man has always had to overcome his dread of tomorrow in order to live for today. We who espouse Christianity, however, have a hope that can assuage our natural fear of the unknown.

We have the promise of the angels who announced that Jesus would return as He left after His resurrection (see Acts 1:11). We have the assurance of Zechariah 2:10 which says, “Shout and be glad, O Jerusalem, for I am coming and I will live among you, says the Lord.” The God we serve is a God of love and hope and joy and truth. “What He has promised, He is able to perform,” Romans 4:21. Jesus NEVER fails, so the heart that trusts Him need not fail with fear.