BBD 04.22.19 Stop the Pain! (New)
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Since June 8th 1998, this is
the 1809th
The Burning Bush Devotional
22 April 2019
Stop the
Pain!
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
“Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself
will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor
crying. THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN, for the former things have passed away.” – Revelation 21:3-4 NKJV.
When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you,
To deliver you from the way of evil. -
Proverbs 2:10-12a NKJV.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without
hypocrisy. – James 3:17 NKJV.
There has been such pain
across our world in recent days with the horrific Easter bombing of churches
and hotels in Sri Lanka. Hundreds of Christians peacefully worshiping their
Lord ripped from this world to the next. However, the pain inflicted by those
led by hatred instead of peace was not limited to just Sri Lanka. How many were
killed by hate filled people in just the last week? Likely the number, if known,
would be in the thousands. Just in the area where I live there have been three
brutal murders that has caused great pain for their families. One of those killed
I knew, as he attended the same high school that I attended.
For us who know Jesus as
our Savior we have the glorious promise that is given in Revelation 21 that someday …there shall be no more pain! But certainly,
it is not God’s will that there be pain in our lives even now. How can the pain
be stopped? How can people be turned from their evil ways? Revelation gives us
the answer to that: “Behold, the tabernacle of God is
with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God
Himself will be with them and be their
God.” Did you get that? “…the tabernacle of God is
with men, and He will dwell with them.” For those who know Jesus
as their Savior, God is already dwelling with them as we are told in 1 Corinthians 3:16, “Do you not know that you are the
temple of God and that the Spirit of God
dwells in you?” Once “the Spirit of God dwells in you,” He is a force restraining
you from causing evil and pain.
The writer of the Book of Proverbs tells us that
we need wisdom. Wisdom will “deliver you from the way of evil.” How do we
obtain this kind of wisdom? “Wisdom that …is first
pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits,
without partiality and without hypocrisy.” In James 1:5 we are
told, “If any of
you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without
reproach, and it will be given to him.”
There is a solution
available to the pain and evil that is running rampant across our world. What
is that solution? His Name is JESUS! Give them JESUS and stop the pain!
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