At church tonight, the sermon centered around "living on the edge." I love that phrase--"living on the edge." It referred to those who spoke of Jesus, those willing to put it all on the line to follow the Lord. The Bible is replete with examples of those who stepped out in faith.
In our lives, God has blessed us abundantly -- we have family, we have food, we have shelter, we have all that we need, and more! We are snug in our little spot, but this time will pass. Our foundation needs to be firm when we stand against the world. The pastor told a story of a woman during wartime. (I am ad-libbing the parts I missed, as the children distracted me during the story.) -- Emma was part of a group of women quilters. One day enemy soldiers were walking by and she took her broom out after them. The soldiers shrugged her off. The other women laughed at her when they heard and asked her what she thought she was doing. She said she knew she couldn't win a battle, but she wanted them to know what side she was on.
Don't we feel like we are waving a little broom against enemy guns, when we go against the world? Yet, we stand. Whatever happens, God will be there with us. In the battle, let us stand on His side.
In our lives, God has blessed us abundantly -- we have family, we have food, we have shelter, we have all that we need, and more! We are snug in our little spot, but this time will pass. Our foundation needs to be firm when we stand against the world. The pastor told a story of a woman during wartime. (I am ad-libbing the parts I missed, as the children distracted me during the story.) -- Emma was part of a group of women quilters. One day enemy soldiers were walking by and she took her broom out after them. The soldiers shrugged her off. The other women laughed at her when they heard and asked her what she thought she was doing. She said she knew she couldn't win a battle, but she wanted them to know what side she was on.
Don't we feel like we are waving a little broom against enemy guns, when we go against the world? Yet, we stand. Whatever happens, God will be there with us. In the battle, let us stand on His side.
ROMANS 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written:
“ For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 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.
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