Post by Dezi on Jul 12, 2019 15:08:06 GMT -5
I like what Corrie ten Boom said about this. She asked her father if it was scary to die. He used the analogy of when they would go take a train ride somewhere, and he would hold onto her ticket until it was time to show the ticket to the clerk. He had the ticket with him in his wallet, but there was no need for her to try to hold it. When the time came to get on the train, the ticket would appear.
We can make our best laid plans, but no human intellect or cleverness will prepare us for a spiritual work. We see this consistently in Scripture. The Lord told the apostles not to plan their defense at a trial because He will give them a defense when the time comes. When He sent them out two by two, He sent them with a very thin wallet. Provision was made by other saints being hospitable.
It’s good for us to take commonsense steps to prepare for a future, but if the Lord is not in it it will be in vain, and we cannot humanly anticipate what the Lord has in store for us. So please do not fret over this. Do you want you can, leave it to the Lord, and let it be enough. We have many testimonies through the years of saints who were murdered or left to die, and they were faithful to the end because God preserved them through the pain. Stories abound of martyrs who said they felt no pain. Whatever your future is, the Lord will give you the grace to do what you need to do.