Good Morning Everyone,
Our theme for this month: “Doubts”
Our Bible verse for today: “Be strong and courageous; don’t be terrified or afraid of them. For it is the Lord your God who goes with you; he will not leave your or forsake you.” Deuteronomy 31:6 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “Despite anything else you’re faced with or are dealing with, God is with you.”
The words we read in Deuteronomy 31:6 were spoken by Moses to the young man Joshua as Moses was about to hand-off the reigns of leadership to Joshua. How would you like to have been in Joshua’s situation, assigned by God to fill the shoes of someone like Moses? Worse still, the future must have looked impossible to him. He was now supposed to lead more than a million grumbling, fickle, and hard-headed people into an unknown land filled with enemies. And how do you feed a million people anyway?
Joshua was faced with a huge problem that was completely beyond his own abilities to deal with. Either God was going to show-up in a big way or Joshua was going to be in big trouble.
Joshua needed to be reassured – and so do we. Our problems probably aren’t of the magnitude of what Joshua was facing but still, they are problems, and they are ours, and they do cause us to have doubts – doubts about ourselves, doubts about others, and maybe doubts about God.
The words of promise and reassurance Joshua received from Moses were not the last he was to receive. He needed to be reassured repeatedly, and when we read his life story we find that he was.
Likewise, you and I need to receive repeated words of reassurance from God – and we do. Read your Bible. Deuteronomy 31:6 was spoken to Joshua but it applies to us as well. As does Joshua 1:9, and Proverbs 3:5-6, and Jeremiah 29:11-13; and Jeremiah 33:3, and Matthew 11:28-30, and Matthew 28:20, and Philippians 1:6, and Hebrews 13:5-6, and so many more.
In this life you will face troubles, Jesus told us that. And you will have doubts – doubts about yourself, doubts about other people, doubts about the future, and maybe even sometimes doubts about God. But one thing you need never doubt is that God is with you. He goes before you, He has a great plan for your life, and He will never abandon you.
As we conclude our month of devotional messages about doubt, I encourage you to spend some extra time this morning slowly reading and meditating upon the verses I cited above. It would be good to commit them to memory as well because despite anything else you are dealing with or are faced with, God is with you, and that is an important truth to remember.
God Bless,
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 