BBD 06.24.21 Delivered from the Lion (Classic)
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Classic from 2002
The Burning Bush Devotional
24 June 2021
Delivered from the Lion
But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so
that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles
might hear. Also I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord
will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom.
To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen! - 2 Timothy 4:17-18.
In South Africa, Kimberly Thomen of Sugarland,
Texas ended up in the mouth of a lion. Kimberly was on a tour of South Africa
and visiting the Leshoka Thabang Game Lodge in Limpopo when she was attacked.
She got off a game-viewing vehicle to pet one of three young lions after being
assured that it was safe. She was petting one of the lions when the lion clawed
her; she screamed, and then the other lions joined the attack. The tour
guide began trying to pull the lions off and eventually the young lions stopped
their attack. Thomen received wounds all over her body and a bite wound to her neck,
but Kimberly is expected to recover from her wounds.
How many times have we been told that some
dangerous thing is safe? How many young people have succumbed to having sex
outside of marriage believing that a condom will protect them from pregnancy
and sexual disease only to find out that it was not safe at all? There is a
contraceptive failure rate of 18.4 percent for girls under age 18. And among
young, unmarried, minority women the annual failure rate is 36.3 percent; among
unmarried Hispanic women, it is as high as 44.5 percent (Statistics from
lovematters.com).
Condoms provide even less protection against
sexually transmitted disease. Dr. Robert Renfield, chief
of retro-viral research, Walter Reed Army Institute says, “Simply put, condoms fail. And condoms
fail at a rate unacceptable for me as a physician to endorse them as a strategy
to be promoted as meaningful AIDS protection.” Dr. Teresa Crenshaw, member
of the U.S. Presidential AIDS Commission and past president of the American
Association of Sex Educators says, “Saying that the use of condoms is ‘safe
sex’ is, in fact, playing Russian roulette. A lot of people will die in this
dangerous game.”
Many have also been told that alcohol and illegally
used substances are not dangerous. Here are just a few of the dangers of
alcohol: nervous system depressant, affects almost every organ of the body,
alters perceptions, hinders coordination, blocks memory functions, can cause
stomach ailments, can cause sexual impotence, can cause heart and central
nervous system damage, causes damage to the liver and other organs, and can
cause blackouts. Alcohol also interacts negatively with over 150 medications.
Many young people die every year from alcohol poisoning and in the USA alcohol
contributes to 100,000 deaths annually.
Even marijuana a relatively benign recreational
drug in comparison to some other illegal drugs has some severe dangers. It is
thought that marijuana suppresses the immune system leaving the body more
susceptible to many illnesses (including cancer and AIDS). It is also thought
that marijuana is the source of many mental disorders, including “acute toxic psychosis, panic attacks
(one of the very conditions it is being used experimentally to treat),
flashbacks, delusions, depersonalization, hallucinations, paranoia, depression,
and uncontrollable aggressiveness. Marijuana has long been known to trigger
attacks of mental illness, such as bipolar (manic-depressive) psychosis and
schizophrenia http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html).”
The
lions are everywhere, and they are seeking to destroy you (1 Peter 5:8). There is a way to keep from being
devoured by the lions, and if the lion has you in its mouth, there is a way out.
That way out is to turn to the Lord Jesus and commit your life totally and
completely to Him just as the apostle Paul did. Then you will find that
the Lord will drag those lions off, and He will strengthen, and stand
with you to defend you “from
every evil work and preserve (you) us for His
heavenly kingdom.”
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