Random jogs: November 2023

Psalm 125:1-2

1
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
2
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
so the Lord surrounds his people
both now and forevermore.

A rock, not a pebble, not a boulder, not a stone, but rock, bedrock. Sturdier than bedrock. When we build on Jesus we can not fail. Way back in 1994 I was getting ready to go to West Africa for summer missions and the country was embroiled in turmoil. There were many discussions on whether I should go. My mom worried if I would be safe, and missionary friends of ours, reassured her, that if I should be there, then I am safer there in West Africa than home in my own house. As it turned out, I went to South Africa because the missionaries in West Africa deemed it a little too iffy. South Africa had just turned from Apartheid, it was not a safe place and we saw that several times in Cape Town. Cape Town, South Africa was not a safe destination either, but I was safely held by the Lord My Rock and went and served and learned much from my time there.

There is a lot of uncertainty in world today. We might be frightened of what's going on with wars, and rumors of wars, terrorists, inflation, COVID and climate change. We can rest in the Rock of Jesus, not that famous guy on TV.

What's that picture? Uluru or Ayers Rock, in Australia. It is a giant rock. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluru

If you're keeping notes, take it to the bank #1:

You can trust God in fearful times.

We do not need to be shaken, we can trust in God.
He is bigger than our problems.
He is stronger than the fears.
He is master over all the storms.

Isaiah 26:3-4 New International Version (NIV)

3
You will keep in perfect peace
those whose minds are steadfast,
because they trust in you.
4
Trust in the Lord forever,
for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock eternal.

Psalm 62:1-2

For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
1
Truly my soul finds rest in God;
my salvation comes from him.
2
Truly he is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

If your keeping notes, #2 Take it to the Bank: God is your foundation.

Take it to the bank: