Did you ever have one of those days? You know the one I mean, when you wonder why you even try? When the best of intentions and the desire to make a difference doesn’t seem to make a difference at all? I had one of those days yesterday, and it might continue today. Evil abounds. What about God’s grace, which means the strength to withstand the evil?
I don’t want to give in to the temptation not to care anymore. I want to be infused with God’s grace today. A few scriptures have come to mind, given, I trust, by God, as I am struggling within my heart.
Let’s start with select verses from Psalm 91:
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust!”
A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, but it shall not approach you. You will only look on with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked. For you have made the Lord, my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place. No evil will befall you.
“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name. He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.”
Then I go to the New Testament and find these words of Jesus at the Last Supper:
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.
Truly, the Lord is my only refuge today. I want to look past, or through, the tribulation in my life and recognize I can have peace through Him. I want to see that last line come to pass: He has overcome the world.
