August 14, 2024

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like there has been a change in the atmosphere. The heaviness seems to have lifted. Did it have something to do with the 9th of Av, which was yesterday? In the past, it was a day that a lot of bad things happened to Israel. I feel thankful that we are beyond it. However, my reflection on the scriptures was deepened by the Holy Spirit, and anytime you spend a significant amount of time in God’s Word, he blesses you, and I feel that’s what happened to me. When God gives you clarity on someone or something, you cannot unsee it, and it’s a blessing that God trusts you to with that information. We may differ on some things we believe. However, there is one thing we can agree on: that we cannot live without Jesus. He is the reason for our holiness here on earth and our hope for the future. Nobody can do that for us; he is our one and only. We are blessed and secure in him. Rest now because this world is wild and will only worsen. Sleep in your armor, but know this: our Savior has commanded his angels to watch over us. 

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation. Psalms 91:14-16