Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.—Joshua 1:9
Jesus tells us… Some days are just hard—a tough test, a fight with a friend, trouble at home. You rehearse it over and over in your mind like the words to a song. But when you rehearse your problems that way, you live them over and over again. You were meant to live through them only once—when they actually happen! Don’t try to figure out how you’ll get through this situation on your own. Come to Me, and let Me guide you and give you My Peace.
Jesus concludes… Don’t forget that I am always with you. I will give you all the strength and courage you need to face whatever challenges come your way. I will turn your worries and your fears into confidence and trust.
Matthew 11:28–30; Joshua 1:5
Footnotes Joshua 1:12-15 During the previous year, the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh had asked Moses if they could settle just east of the Promised Land. The area was excellent pastureland for their large flocks. Moses agreed to give them the land on one condition—that they help their fellow tribes enter and conquer the Promised Land. Only after the land was conquered could they return to their homes. Now it was time for these three tribes to live up to their agreement.
Passage Mathew 11:28-30; 28“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Footnotes Mathew 11:28-30 A yoke is a heavy wooden harness that fits over the shoulders of an ox or oxen. It is attached to a piece of equipment the oxen are to pull. A person may be carrying heavy burdens of (1) sin, (2) excessive demands of religious leaders (23:4; Acts 15:10), (3) oppression and persecution, or (4) weariness in the search for God. Jesus frees people from all these burdens. The rest that Jesus promises is love, healing, and peace with God, not the end of all labor. A relationship with God changes meaningless, wearisome toil into spiritual productivity and purpose.
Passage Joshua 1:5 5No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsaken you.
Footnotes Joshua 1:5 Joshua’s new job consisted of leading more than two million people into a strange new land and conquering it. What a challenge—even for a man of Joshua’s caliber! Every new job is a challenge. Without God it can be frightening. With God it can be a great adventure. Just as God was with Joshua, he is with us as we face our new challenges. We may not conquer nations, but every day we face tough situations, difficult people, and temptations. God promises, however, that he will never abandon us or fail to help us. By asking God to direct us we can conquer many of life’s challenges.
THE WORLD…we see history
Adolf Hitler is viewed by many as the personification of evil. Hitler was right there, before our modern eyes, a madman hell-bent on dominating the world.”
The son of a failed Austrian farmer, Hitler was a disruptive student. He moved to Vienna as a teen, where he was twice refused admission to art school and lived for a time in abject poverty, his resentment festering into a violent anti-Semitism. He was decorated for his service in the Bavarian army during World War I, and after the war he and his confederates formed the National Socialist German Workers Party in Munich and tried to take over Bavaria in the “beer-hall putsch” of 1923. They were quashed and Hitler spent nine months in jail, during which time he wrote Mein Kampf (“My Battle”), which would spread his myth and philosophy and become the Nazi bible. He and the Nazi Party rose quickly in the late 1920s and early ’30s by exploiting German poverty, blaming all ills on Jewish capitalism, denigrating the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles that concluded World War I, and promising an epoch of Aryan greatness (The Aryan race is a historical race concept which emerged in the late 19th century to describe people of Indo-European heritage as a racial grouping.[1] The theory had been widely rejected and disproved since there neither exists historical evidence nor archaeological evidence which supports the claims Wiki) . In 1934, 88 percent of the populace voted to consolidate the presidency and chancellorship into one office, that of Führer, or “leader.” Anti-Semitism became law.
ADOLF HITLER 1889–1945
The WORD…we see Jesus, His Story!
President Franklin Roosevelt said, “We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a Nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic.”
Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition. Wikipedia.
The Bible is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path; when it burns low, our culture grows dark. The best way to keep America strong is to know her history, to honor her roots, to preserve her legacy, and to cherish the eternal God who, in His providence, placed this continent between two shimmering seas, and who, in His goodness, provided a Book that became her moral and intellectual foundation: the Holy Bible. ***
“In regard to this Great Book,” wrote Abraham Lincoln in a letter dated September 7, 1864, “I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.” ***
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