So here I am thinking of the Text about being content and I go looking for it.
For the life of me I did not remember it is smack dab in the middle of that chapter; that it followed that verse.
Hebrews 13.
5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”6 So we may boldly say:
“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”source
Do you know what comes before verse 5?
An admonishment to LET brotherly love continue.
To forget not to be nice to strangers, they might be angels.
To remember the prisoners.
And then —- MARRIAGE.
Well! Where is non covetous conduct more needed than in marriage? Where would contentment be more needed than marriage? Where would more problems be solved by contentment than in marriage? And where the greater need for His promise: I will never leave you nor forsake you than in our marriages!?
So! In all these things, brotherly and sisterly relationships; strangers and folks in bondage, AND in our marriages, in all these things, HE is our Helper! In all these things, with all these people, HE will not forsake us, so let us be content while He works on all these things in us and through us!
Especially when there are mountains to scale, we will remember this promise. We shall strap it on over our hearts as we pull on our hiking boots; pick up our staff and make way.
Deuteronomy 29: 5 For forty years God has led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes haven’t become old, and your shoes haven’t worn out!source
You know the account here, right? During the Hebrews’ wilderness journey GOD supplied all their needs and some of that supplying came by way of supernatural interventions, miracles.
I heard it today this way: GOD in His grace may keep our shoes from wearing out, but we do have to put them on and lace them up!
As I sit before this page, I am hearing a media stream and I’m giving thanks. Thanks that every soul who desires to have their eyes opened, will be. Spiritual blindness is optional and I am so grateful that ABBA is willing and able to open blinded eyes and hearts. I believe He is doing that today. Why? Because in His grace He is doing a work in me. To HIM be all the glory!
Yep. When appropriate, He does keep our shoes from wearing out but we still have to shoe up and lace up.
I’m still praying, still thinking about this word authentic; what it means to be and live authentically this year. Perhaps there is more than one key to authentic living but here’s one. Just a thought I had today.
If I believe GOD loves me based only on what I see Him do or allow to be done, there will be times I will doubt He loves me. But if I believe He loves me based on who HE IS, I will always KNOW He loves me.
I John 4:16 TLV So we have come to know and trust in the love that God has for us. God is love. . . . source
Yes He has love for us but much more importantly HE IS LOVE always and forever. Not something a finite brain can get itself wrapped around but we will . . . someday. And until then we will learn day by day to trust what we have heard.
Romans 10:17 (AMPC) 17 So faith comes by hearing [what is told], and what is heard comes by the preaching [of the message that came from the lips] of Christ (the Messiah Himself). source
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