November 1
We tend to get wrapped around the axle rather easily. It doesn’t take too much provocation to render us fearful and anxiety ridden. One would think that the longer we have walked with the Lord, the less inclined we would be to allow these negative emotions to have sway over us, but many of us do.
Our ‘common sense,’ that natural attribute that requires us to ponder things from a logical perspective, declares that our fears are unfounded, for we are people of faith and power in Christ. Our common sense dictates that we turn our negative thoughts over to Jesus and allow Him to fill our minds with peace.
Our Lord Himself asked in Luke 24:38, 39, “Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your heart?” These words were spoken by Jesus to His disciples after His crucifixion and resurrection. They were spoken when He came to them after dying before their eyes and then returning to them.
He went on to give them the solution to their doubts and fears. It is the solution to the doubts and fears we face as well. We, too, must: “…Look at My hands and My feet.” Jesus is here making it very clear that He bore these wounds to deliver His people from all that besets us—disease, doubt, sin, death.
Our part is to look to Him, to the Giver of all gifts, to the Giver of that "unspeakable Gift," II Corinthians 9:15, and to receive the power that He has given to us (John 14:12) to use for the pulling down of strongholds and the lifting up of His holy name throughout the earth. Our anxiety will be gone when we have employed the faith to appropriate the power He says is ours against our foe.
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