Faith Christian Assembly

2 Timothy 3:1 warns, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.” The Apostle Paul assures Timothy that persecutions and trials were to be expected by all who aimed to lead holy lives and that it was certainly to be expected that evil men would become worse and worse.

Jesus said in John 16:33, “In me, you may have peace. In the world, you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” Times like these can have a tendency to make people feel anything but “good cheer.”

When Goliath was taunting Israel, 1 Samuel 17:24 says that the men of Israel were “dreadfully afraid.” But it also says that the young David “ran to the battle” (17:48) to meet Goliath. What made him do that? Earlier in the passage, David experienced victory in battles with a lion, and a bear. He was confident that Goliath would meet the same end as they did. 1 Samuel 17:37, David said, “The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” David’s confidence was in the Lord, even though his brothers and others criticized him for his boldness in facing this challenge. They evidently were convinced that facing a bear or a lion was completely different from facing Goliath. But David knew he trusted God to be the same deliverer.

Even when believers find themselves in the middle of “interesting times,” they can make a decision to set their minds on those lions and bears that the Lord delivered them from in the past.

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