God is with us

Read Psalm 27

The Lord is my light and my salvation -

whom shall I fear? 

The Lord is the stronghold of my life- 

of whom shall I be afraid.

                                                                                              Psalm 27:1
Where is your trust. Is it in the Lord. Do you desire to do the work of the Lord. Our lives should be fully devoted to God.
We live in a very uncaring world. We live and for that matter have always lived in a world that has been hostile to Christians. That’s life.
The Psalmist here is asking God to be with him. He saying God is with him through everything that happens to him.
As Christians we should remember this. That no matter what we are going through God is with us.
The cry of the Psalmist is for God to lead him in the strait path to teach him His ways.
No matter what circumstance we are in God is there. I think it was Cory Tenboon that said “there is no pit to deep that God cannot reach into.” This is true.
I fully believe the book of Acts was put there to show Christians throughout the generations what they can expect.
Within the book of act there is great rejoicing. While at the same time those who took the Gospel out underwent a great deal.
Peter and John heal a man, preached to the people as a result they were arrested and put in prison.
Stephen was stoned to death.
Paul shipwrecked, stoned and left for dead, put in prison where he witnessed to his jailor.
There was also a lot of evangelization. Peter preaching from the house top on the day of Pentecost. Peter and John witnessing to the crowd and the religious leaders of their day. Philip leading the Ethiopian Eunuch to Christ. Paul holding what amounted to an evangelical meeting at the Areopagus, at the request of none believers, the local Stoics and Epicureans no less.
These men went through a lot for the sake of the gospel and they laid the foundation of the church. They showed God is with them no matter the circumstances.
They believed the words of the Psalmist,

“The Lord is my light and my salvation -

whom shall I fear? 

The Lord is the stronghold of my life- 

of whom shall I be afraid.”

Something to think about.
In order to win this lost world to Christ we need to go forth with the abilities and talents we have. We must always remember that God does not create junk. That he gives us the exactly what we need to reach those around us. Even if that’s just the ability to invite someone to church, Sunday School a Bible study group or youth meeting or for that matter an in home coffee group.
We may be rejected and shunned. In some parts of the world we may even be arrested and placed in jail. But through it all God will be with us. Because nothing can separate us from the love of God.

Paul in Romans 8:38,39 states, “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.”