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Our emotions tell us:  I am frustrated, depressed, and afraid that I might fall short.  Fear or faith?   Believing plus trusting? Fearing and clinging to fear? Voicing what?  Sharing what?

Because my cross looms before me, do I wonder if God loves me?

Do I give doubt a place in me? Or do I instruct my feelings and my perception of things to see joy result from even a predicament of which I may be a cause.   Satan uses this trick to accuse us.  He is the “accuser of the brethren” (1 Timothy 4:13). He loves to highlight our failures.

Jesus loved us and gave himself “to take away our sin:  to ‘save’ us. We do well to seek counselors who always lead to faith in the Savior.

All who lived will have passed this same journey.  The choice of all is either with or against God and the avenues of faith or doubt.

God became provoked with Israel because with stiff necks they chose complaining over trusting. Some will have stood out for the cause of God.

Some believed their journey was too hard, harder than others so they never rose above complaining.

What is the cause of God concerning me? Is not His passion to make of my life a life that wins? Can He do it? The Savior saves, the best thing we can do is to run to Him.

“I can do all things through Christ,” (Philippians 4:13).  He will see to it, or I can live in the solitude; Satan will see to that. Solitude, when accepted, will drive a person to build a case of self-pity, to perfect it with repetition, and to select listeners who lack the courage to insist that faith in God is always the answer.

A good listener is better than a quick responder; but Godly counsel must always lead a person to faith in God. God is near. Seek Him and He will be found.

Faith in the midst of great threat and pending difficulty is a common requirement of those who are commissioned to be in the world and not of it. Jesus paved the way. Jesus is the way. The way, works.

Doubt, it has a place, and does not tell us the good news. The newspapers and televised news are to be observed but not to be trusted in predicting an outcome.  God is at the helm.

It is not the perishing world which should be our resting focus, not our present struggle or fear; it is Him alone of whom it is written, look to Jesus Christ and live. The choice is clear.

Darkness is the convenient agent for making light visible: God is near. “The light shines in darkness” (John 1:5).

Will I ascend above my doubt and dismay? Or, will I be discontent with discontent? Will I grovel in self-pity?

Self-pity must be voiced so as to find company in its misery.

In the end, self-pity may cause us the loneliness of being shunned by others, even the loneliness of clinical depression.

Complaining must be directed to the LORD so that faith can arise. Every human counselor who tenderly leads another to the “God of all hope” as the answer of all pain is very wise. (Romans 15:13)

We’re not home yet. Faith and doubt are our daily choices.

Jesus is not too good for us. He loves us.

“What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and grief to bear.”    Joseph M. Scriven, 1820-1886

“Hallelujah, what a Savior.”      Phillip P. Bliss, pub. 1875

God is near. He has the helm. His plan is good for the willing. We can completely trust Him.

Are these our predominant thoughts? They can be.  When we choose to trust Him over and over, we become the people of our choices.

Buddy