BBD 03.23.16 God is on Your Side (New)
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Since June 8th 1998, this
is the 1700th
Burning Bush Devotional
23 March 2016
God is on Your Side
Read Psalm 118
I can
remember in grade school playing games like Red Rover. Games like that required
that there be two teams with the leader of each team choosing one at a time
those who would be on their side. In those days at my school there was no
teacher supervision of that process, or of the playing of the game. I always
dreaded those times, hoping that I wouldn’t be the last one chosen! That would
have been bad. If you were going to play the game you had to be on one side or
the other.
In life who is on your side? Your
spouse, your children, your parents, your co-workers, other members of your
church, your pastor? You do have some people in life who are on your side. Most
likely you are never as alone as it may sometimes seem. However, we need to
remember that people are just people. Sometimes we humans do not always make
the right decisions, even those who you think are on your side. Other people
make mistakes just like you do and they have problems in their lives the same
as you. There will be times when those that you believe to be on your side will
fail to stand up for you. There will be times when you want their help, you ask
for their help, for their support and those people will let you down. This is a
sad fact of life that people will sometimes let you down.
When everything in life goes
south and you wonder how you can go on, here’s a tool that you can use to help.
Psalm 118:6 NKJV says, “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can
man do to me?” What can man do to
you? What is the absolutely worst thing that can happen? The worst of the worst
most likely will only occur in your life a few times over the course of a
lifetime. If you can make it through it, you will have clear sailing for years.
Here is something that can help you to survive. If you can come to the point
where you can accept the worst that can possibly happen – then you can move
forward. You can move forward knowing that regardless of what other people may
do or say, God is on your side. “The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can
man do to me?” GOD. IS. ON. YOUR.
SIDE! And, God proved that once and for all when Jesus suffered and died for
our sins on the cross.
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