From the Psalms

From the Psalms

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 and touch us.” 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 left for dead and 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 Eunich to Christ. Paul being asked by Stoic and Epicurean philosophers to speak at the Areopagus in Athens. Telling non believing intellectuals of his day about Christ.
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.”

We need to be witnessing like the early church. We need to be using our abilities to further the gospel of Christ, even if that ability is just to invite someone to church.
Think about it.