Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-June, 22nd

deaconlwg | June 27, 2008 04:26

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

Do not fear what they fear.

On a recent trip through Missouri and other places I checked into a hotel to shut down for the night. The road had been unusually long  that day. I was feeling a little down. Some sense of worry had set in.

It wasn't really hard to figure out why. As a news junkie I had been listening to the radio all day. The stories about the flooding in the midwest, the reports on the soaring prices of the fuel that I so much depend on, all the political commentary about how bad it's going get if this candidate or that candidate gets elected in November, these and some other things had all combined together and got to me a little.

I would imagine that this happens to most all of us at times. This world and this life we live can become overwhelming at times. The people that report the news to us seem to always focus on the negative, and I guess they probably always will. It's a wonder we don't get down more often than we do.

In that hotel room, thanks to the Gideons, was a copy of the best selling book of all times. There on the night stand beside the bed I found the Bible. Today I needed it more than maybe on other days. As it always seems to happen, I opened the book in the right place, and began reading from Isaiah, chapter eight. It didn't take long at all to find the exact words that I needed.

God was instructing the prophet Isaiah during a time of great peril. Verses twelve and thirteen, though given to Isaiah a long time ago,  now had provided the appropriate comfort that I needed in 2008.


Isaiah 8:12 and 13


"Do not call conspiracy everything that these people call conspiracy; do not fear what they fear, and do not dread it. The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear.

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