Upheld With A Sound Mind

Too Much? 

I don’t know about you, but I have overwhelm on the brain. Most anytime, but particularly at the first of the year. Right? So much bombards us early in the year. I imagine the cartoons of all kinds of stuff flying out of the head. You’ve seen them. I think I prefer the goofy hat of one hundred years ago or so. There’s enough stuff on it to be too busy, don’t you think?

I thought I might write a fluff piece, but there is just too much going on in our world to be too fluffy. There is Trouble everywhere, with a capital T. So – brace yourself for another kind of capital T – Truth!

Fear Not! Sound Mind Belongs to the Steadfast

We don’t have to live with fear because, if Jesus has saved us, then we are covered by His Name and His Blood. Oppression has no place in us.

We have power through the Blood of the Lamb.

We have love because Jesus loves us and gave Himself for us.

We have a sound mind because it’s clear and washed clean, and we can absorb God’s Word for our protection.

Sing and Dance!

We are free to worship the God who loves us. The antithesis of fear is worship and delight. How can God delight in our worship of Him if we are in fear and not delighting in Him? He longs for us to delight in Him. Go ahead and sing at the top of your lungs and dance. Let the spirits of darkness hear it and shudder.

How good God is! All the time, no matter what.

First published in Upheld In The Battle, p58.

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV).