This week for the third strait year our home has been select to participate in the Nielsen TV ratings. We are sent a diary to fill out of all the programs we watch in a given week and these are used to help determine which shows have high enough ratings to continue on to the next season. Each year we have written down all our favorite shows, given them high praise and then they in turn get canceled. It makes us wonder why we even spend the time fill in the diary! Often times it feels like no one listens to you even when they claim to. But God is always willing to listen. I Peter 5:7 says, “casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” God listen, cares, and acts. Even though we may not see or know how, God shows his care for his people.
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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