WHAT IF?

What if our Country goes downhill because it is following a dark path? What if life looks black ahead?

It does not matter what happens to us or to the world, when we are doing our personal best to walk with God. Just before Jesus ascended to Heaven, after his resurrection he assured us, "And behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the world. Amen." (Matthew 28:20)

We can focus if we are reading Scripture every day to live by faith in God: once, twice, three times a day as Daniel did. His enemies knew it.  When he ended in the lion’s den, God was there.  In the morning he said loud and clear to the distraught King Darius, “My God has sent his Angel”. (Daniel 6)

God said about three men in history who lived through dark times, “Though these three men, Noah, Daniel and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own soul by their righteousness...” (Ezekiel 14:14) Dark days are the same as sunny days to our Creator.  “Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to you.”  (Psalm 139:12)

The queen was after Elijah the Prophet. Jezebel threatened to kill him.  Her fury knew no bounds. "And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there. But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers. And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.  And he looked and behold, there was a cake baked on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down again. And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee. And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God. 

And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and behold, the word of the LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What are you doing here, Elijah? And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away." (I Kings 19) Did the queen get him? You know the story, “Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11)

 

How do we have faith to believe, to hold onto Jesus?  It doesn’t matter who threatens, who slanders, who lies.  “Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”

 

What if the darkness in the world deepens! If you are walking with God with integrity, with all your heart, it does not matter?