"Bring it Forth"

"If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;" (Psalms 124:1)

  Sure, I could have grouped all five of these together into one large topic, but what is the fun in that? Besides that, this is an important verse to start the dialog or discussion, because we must not be one of those double-minded people that are always doubting if God still loves them; as if He could allow His love to be affected by what we do or don't do. His love for His children does not change! He may not like some of the stupid things that we do, but there is nothing we can do to make Him love us more than what He already does, and there is nothing He can do to make us love Him less. To the point of this verse, this is something that you can place within every single situation you might have been in, whether it was based upon your own wrong doing or not; if you have come out of it, it needs to be declared: "If it had not been the LORD who was on our side!" Sometimes, as was previously mentioned, we must ignore the things that are seen and put our focus upon the things that are unseen; as hard as that might be to do, it is important that we make it our goal. I don't use that term lightly, because there is something that we must understand about what a goal represents, structure and planning! How do we plan for catastrophe? How do you not? We can try hard to convince ourselves that nothing can knock us off our feet; but in so doing, we set ourselves up for defeat. There is a good example of what I am talking about when you look at Paul's comment, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." (1 Corinthians 13:11) To the bigger point, children love to dream big; their imagination can sometimes get them into trouble, because there is such a blur between what is real and what is imaginary. Putting away childish things, is pretty much about being focused upon the real and the meaningful things, the things that matter. How much does it matter that God is on our side? I can think of one powerful verse that shows us how much, because it is more than we can imagine...

"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." (Jeremiah 29:11)