“Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.” Isaiah 41:10“’The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace,
Because he trusts in You.
“Trust in the LORD forever,
For in GOD the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.’” Isaiah 26:3Trusting in the Lord has all the answers we need… Last week’s verses from Isaiah 40 shows how we have the promise that as our trust is in the Lord He will renew our strength. Above, Isaiah 41 confirms how we can trust in the Lord because He will strengthen, help and uphold us. Chapter 26 reveals that His peace will keep us as we make Him our “everlasting Rock”.Scripture has a lot to say about the Lord being our rock and how we need to make our foundation, our trust and hope in Him alone for He is the only one who can save us. Christ Jesus, God in the flesh, came down to this earth to live among us, die for our sins although He had committed no sin or even anything worthy of death (Isaiah 53:6 and 2 Corinthians 5:20-21) so that He might conquer sin and death and rise again to the right had of the Father in heaven. Yes, Christ is that stone we are to build our very lives on. He is the stone which wast rejected by the men of His day and how great a wonder it is to us that God would show His great love to us even before we accepted Him. Isaiah 28:16 Psalm 118:22,23 Romans 5:8
May we come up for a breath of air now?! With strawberry season on it doesn’t seem like we’ve been able to spend much time tending to anything besides strawberries! The Lord has blessed so richly and abundantly in every way though both by “healing” the strawberry crop of water damage and insect pests which threatened to snatch away nearly the entire crop and blessing us with a bountiful harvest. There were a few times we wondered how we were going to manage harvesting, marketing, preserving etc. all the strawberries but the Lord always was faithful and has provided what we needed every time. Strawberry season is winding down now so thankfully we should be able to get back to working on some other projects we’ve really gotten behind on. Continue reading »
“But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3: 8,9
