Sharing is Caring

  God who knows my fear and gives me courage     “But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp, and you will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened that you may go down against the camp  …” (Judges 7:10-11).     It is a world of fear.  They are so many fears in this world.  They are so many waves in this world that threaten us.  We Christians are riding the ship with the Lord our Pilot in this world that is like a dark sea and are striving to paddle toward the Heaven.  But on the way to Heaven we meet a big storm that we didn’t expect.  Obviously, what we prayed and expected was a calm sea wave.  Then we are afraid of the unexpected big storm of our lives.  We are afraid to see the big storm.  And in fear we try to battle against the great storm (Jonah 1:13).  As we keep on trying desperately to row back ...

  ’Why then has all this happened to us?’ "The angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, ‘The LORD is with you, O valiant warrior.’ Then Gideon said to him, ‘O my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all His miracles which our fathers told us about, saying, 'Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and given us into the hand of Midian’” (Judges 6:12-13).           When we are going through had time in our lives, there is a thing that makes us harder. And it is a word from our beloved one. For example, when a woman is having a hard time, let’s say her husband comes up to her without really knowing what she is going through and says, ‘Well, it will okay. It’s not a big deal’, how will she feel? I am sure what he said will make her more difficult. Rather than trying to sympathize with her and trying to be in her shoe, if the husband spits out a word too quick without that ...