Standing For The Word of God
This week in my Bible Study, I read Revelation 2:18-20 digging into Jesus’s message to the church in Thyatira.
This week in my Bible Study, I read Revelation 2:18-20 digging into Jesus’s message to the church in Thyatira.
This week, I continued my in-depth study of Revelation with my focus on Jesus’s message to the church in Pergamos, and I realized as I read, that I was right back to the topic of compromise.
We all face hardships. There are patches of life that seem like the struggle is never-ending. We stomp through the mud puddle only to find we are standing in quicksand.
...we do all of these things because our hearts are on fire with the love of Jesus.
Those chains that would have bound us into forever darkness and eternal punishment have been broken, and we are free.
Instead of obeying and interpreting God’s Word as it is written, we are picking, choosing, and twisting the scripture to accommodate and fit the way we want to live.
I had this vivid image of a sickly, elderly, hopeless man tormented by his loss and abandoned by all those he loved and trusted. But then my eyes fell on ...
So, friends, we need to remember that in our darkest moments, when the enemy wants us to think all hope is gone, God is right there collecting our tears and hearing the prayers echoing through our sobs.
Have you ever felt alone… completely alone… the kind of alone where your own voice echoes in your head?
It is the connection that says, “Don’t worry. Together we got this.”