From a few of my kids when analyzing simile's in preparation from their exam
Student: The "God worshipers" are being compared to a mountain. The mountain is strong, it can not be shaken or move. It just sits there.
Ms Anna: Ok, and what about those people? Why are they being compared to this mountain?
Student: Well, when they trust God, they also can not move. Their trustness in God so strong that they don't think about moving.
There are many things that one could be anxious about during this time. For example: children whom you've been entrusted with passing their exams and moving onto the next grade, wondering if you've prepared them enough; an important City in the USA and myriads of families loosing their livelihood from a natural disaster; ones precious country electing it's new president while your watching with the rest of the world from afar..and the list goes on.
I've been gripped with fear and concern from the beginning of the day. Not because of the man that will be in office after this day finishes, but because of a lack of Trust in the Mighty, powerful God that we serve. What happens to those who do not trust in the Lord? We are not a country who trusts in the Lord or relies on His complete and utter control. Will we fall? Will we be shaken? We will certainly not stand like Mt Zion or be surrounded by the loving arms of the Lord. I awoke this morning after having dreamed about the declaration of independence with such a sense of honor for my own country and a burden to pray for us that we may remember Christ.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness." (Declaration of Independence)
Do you know though that, despite what happens, God is in control?
This is literally where I read as I was praying tonight: I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever, nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it, God does it, that men should fear before Him. That which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past. Ecclesiastes 3:14-15
Let's pray more, trust God and live to the fullness that he wants us to. Ek het jou lief! Lekker aand!
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