Satan Drives~Jesus Leads
Jeremiah 12:5-6 The Message (MSG) “So, Jeremiah, if you’re worn out in this footrace with men,
what makes you think you can race against horses?
And if you can’t keep your wits during times of calm,
what’s going to happen when troubles break loose
like the Jordan in flood?
Those closest to you, your own brothers and cousins,
are working against you.
They’re out to get you. They’ll stop at nothing.
Don’t trust them, especially when they’re smiling.
what makes you think you can race against horses?
And if you can’t keep your wits during times of calm,
what’s going to happen when troubles break loose
like the Jordan in flood?
Those closest to you, your own brothers and cousins,
are working against you.
They’re out to get you. They’ll stop at nothing.
Don’t trust them, especially when they’re smiling.
Satan Drives~Jesus Leads
Two totally different pictures. When someone leads you can relax and follow. If you trust your leader to lead then it is easy even if at times it may be hard. You trust. Horses spook easy. They sense things. We are the same. We sense danger and the Lord assures us He is a good shepherd and He leads us.
John 10:11 (NIV) ""I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
Psalm 23:2 (NIV) "He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,"
The problem is many times we give up in the middle. We follow God when He leads us in the direction we want to go but then when we are driven from evil forces from within us and around us we give up.
John 10:11 (NIV) ""I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
Psalm 23:2 (NIV) "He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,"
The problem is many times we give up in the middle. We follow God when He leads us in the direction we want to go but then when we are driven from evil forces from within us and around us we give up.
Don't give up in the middle. Continue to pursue God and the things of God. When the going get tough keep following God by staying in the word and doing the last thing He told you to do. We were made for greatness. We are more than conquerors. We can not lose if we do not quit.
Romans 8:31-39 (KJV)31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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