2 Timothy 3:1 -5
You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness by denying its power.
Goodness! I can relate to this...can you? I'm willing to bet that most of us can. And sometimes, when life and people distress us, it can diminish all our energy, hope, and joie de vivre! But, there is an answer to this distress.
Isaiah 43:1-3
But now thus say the LORD, he who created you....Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
Today (and every day), let us use Isaiah 43 as the ground on which we stand and the lens through which we view our distress and struggles. God's movement and dwelling in our lives is the counterbalance to the weight of worry and fear and anxiety that life places on us.
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