"Apprehension"

"They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law." (Psalms 119:150)

  As to the point made earlier, speaking of oversleeping, the Lord might the one who causes it to happen, just to keep me determined and alert. Don't think for a minute that God does not allow certain things to happen in order to make us stronger and more determined, because there is nothing that goes on in this world that He does not know about or allow. This is one of the points of those that refuse to accept Him or believe that He exist, that He allows bad things to happen to good people. We have got to get past the temporary and into the eternal before we can really appreciate why He says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9) This is a pretty complex issue, because our lives really do not belong to us, they belong to the Lord; and what is His, He uses as He feels fit, to do far more than we could ever imagine we could do on our own. I feel we will be getting into this a bit more tomorrow, so for the sake of time, today I wish to focus on the reason for the today's title. The word, "apprehension," might throw some people off, thinking that it only means to be worried about something that might happen, or even that we might be, to be apprehended by something or someone; but it also speaks of our own understanding, to get a grip on what is happening, or come to the conclusion of what is being put  out by grasping what it might mean. A really good example of what that might look like, would be if you stood looking at a painting from a famous artist and comprehended what the artist was trying to say in the piece of art. It should not surprise any of us that are follower's of Christ, if they hated Jesus, who never did anything wrong, hating us is really very easy for them to do; they don't even need to think twice about it. As a matter of fact, I hardly doubt they can think of anything else...

"Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God's justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage other to do them, too." (Romans 1:28-32) NLT