COMFORT FROM OUR GOD
My last name is Molica.
It’s Italian, and it means the inside of Italian bread. That’s me, hard and
crusty on the outside and soft on the inside. I usually pay more attention to
my hard, crusty, fighter nature. But God knows me well. He told me today is not
the day for fighting and showed me some of His softer nature. God says: “I, even I, am he
that comforteth you” (Is. 51:12). God wants to take good care of us if we
let Him!
John 16:32 tells us we are
never alone: “I am not alone, because the Father is with
me.” Psalm 23:1 tells us: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want
[lack].”
David knew that God could be very tender: “Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from
me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me”
(Ps. 40:11).
Jacob had to leave his
country for a season. But God told him: “Behold, I am with you and will keep
[careful watch over you and guard] you wherever you may go, and I will bring
you back to this [promised] land; for I will not leave you until I have done what
I have promised you” (Gen. 28:15AMP).
God is kind.
“The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart” (Ps.
34:18).
“He healeth the broken in
heart, and bindeth up their wounds” (Ps 147:3).
He is “a
strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress: a refuge
from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat” (Is. 25:4).
Jesus tells us that God is
“my Father,
and your Father” (John 20:17).
And Isaiah 25:8 tells us: “He will swallow up
death in victory; and the Lord God
will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of
his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for
the Lord hath spoken it.”
It’s not healthy to be in constant fight mode. Let
the Lord, your best friend ever, give you a little bit of His soft side today.
Love, Carolyn
Idea for a Christmas
present – One of my books 😊:
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