BBD 03.22.21 The Terror and the Love (Classic)

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

22 March 2021

The Terror and the Love

For we
must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive
the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or
bad. Knowing therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…. - 2
Corinthians 5:10-11.

For the
love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all,
then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer
for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. - 2
Corinthians 5:14-15.

Last
week I read about a man in Oklahoma City who was at a Wal-Mart store shopping.
He was walking down the aisle when suddenly he collapsed, and the next thing he
remembers is waking up in a hospital. He collapsed when his heart went into
full cardiac arrest. Nearby was a police officer that is a CPR instructor and
also a woman trained in CPR. They immediately began working to save the man’s
life performing CPR for 25 minutes until additional help arrived. The man is
doing fine now.

My
Uncle shortly before he died at 80+ years of age shared with me about several
men he knew who had died suddenly. My Uncle knew he had been blessed to live a
long life in relatively good health. It was also a message to me that we do not
know when we will leave this world. We may have years, or it may be today. Last
week a godly man (47 years old) who had lived in our community in the past was
suddenly removed from this world to the next. He was a passenger in a vehicle
driven by his son when a tire blew out and the vehicle swerved off the road and
down a steep incline hitting a tree. The man’s daughter-in-law and his
granddaughter were critically injured but are now improving.

The
apostle Paul knew first-hand about the "terror of the Lord." Paul had
personally encountered the risen Lord on the road to Damascus (Acts 9) where Paul intended to continue
persecuting the church. Being struck blind by God tends to get a person’s
attention and Paul knew what it was like to be in the hands of the living God.
It was a terrifying thing that Paul remembered very well, but not only had the
apostle experienced the "terror" of the Lord, he also knew personally of the "love" of the Lord. Paul
the persecutor through the grace of God became the greatest apostle,
evangelist, and missionary of the early church with many of his letters being
recorded as the Word of God.

Let us
live life soberly and with a sound mind being aware of the brevity of life. We
are not here on earth to just have a good time and in fact life is very
difficult for some of us - it was difficult for Paul too (2 Corinthians 11:25 - But God can bring
good out of the bad for those who love Him and are obedient to His will - Romans 8:28). We are still here because there is work
for us to do. As Paul points out we are new creations in Christ and as His new
creations we are His ambassadors "as
though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be
reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:20)."

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a
stroke.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

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Classic from 2002

The Burning Bush Devotional

22 March 2021

The Terror and the Love

For we
must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive
the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or
bad. Knowing therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men…. - 2
Corinthians 5:10-11.

For the
love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all,
then all died; and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer
for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. - 2
Corinthians 5:14-15.

Last
week I read about a man in Oklahoma City who was at a Wal-Mart store shopping.
He was walking down the aisle when suddenly he collapsed, and the next thing he
remembers is waking up in a hospital. He collapsed when his heart went into
full cardiac arrest. Nearby was a police officer that is a CPR instructor and
also a woman trained in CPR. They immediately began working to save the man’s
life performing CPR for 25 minutes until additional help arrived. The man is
doing fine now.

My
Uncle shortly before he died at 80+ years of age shared with me about several
men he knew who had died suddenly. My Uncle knew he had been blessed to live a
long life in relatively good health. It was also a message to me that we do not
know when we will leave this world. We may have years, or it may be today. Last
week a godly man (47 years old) who had lived in our community in the past was
suddenly removed from this world to the next. He was a passenger in a vehicle
driven by his son when a tire blew out and the vehicle swerved off the road and
down a steep incline hitting a tree. The man’s daughter-in-law and his
granddaughter were critically injured but are now improving.

The
apostle Paul knew first-hand about the "terror of the Lord." Paul had
personally encountered the risen Lord on the road to Damascus (Acts 9) where Paul intended to continue
persecuting the church. Being struck blind by God tends to get a person’s
attention and Paul knew what it was like to be in the hands of the living God.
It was a terrifying thing that Paul remembered very well, but not only had the
apostle experienced the "terror" of the Lord, he also knew personally of the "love" of the Lord. Paul
the persecutor through the grace of God became the greatest apostle,
evangelist, and missionary of the early church with many of his letters being
recorded as the Word of God.

Let us
live life soberly and with a sound mind being aware of the brevity of life. We
are not here on earth to just have a good time and in fact life is very
difficult for some of us - it was difficult for Paul too (2 Corinthians 11:25 - But God can bring
good out of the bad for those who love Him and are obedient to His will - Romans 8:28). We are still here because there is work
for us to do. As Paul points out we are new creations in Christ and as His new
creations we are His ambassadors "as
though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be
reconciled to God (2 Corinthians 5:20)."

Copyright © 2002 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman, Buck & Barbara Wright,
Gwen P., James Perkins and his wife, Vonnie, Pat S., Evi Porter, Addison, JoJo,
Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hillary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Zoe
Marx; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who has had a
stroke.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview Baptist
Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time constraints
the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org