Perspectives

There are things in our lives that, no matter how detrimental they may be to our wellbeing, they are so comforting we refuse to let them go. There are things in my life in which God must intervene because I am unable to save myself. When Samson laid in the lap of Delilah, he immediately woke at the sound of the coming Philistines, but when he shook himself the might of his strength had departed (Judges 16:20); when Saul was appointed king, scripture tells us that he was head and shoulders above his contemporaries, but when a single act placed him at odds with God’s word, no matter how great his sorrow, the glory of the kingdom was stripped from his hands and given to another (1 Samuel 15:24-28); as well remember lot's wife that when the angel of the Lord led them from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and said “Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, …” (Genesis 19:17), she did exactly that "she looked back

The mercies of God are never presented in the manner  which we expect. On the day of Pentecost, people were gathered from every corner, not in anticipation of what God was preparing to do at that moment, but out of obligation, custom and age old traditions that had very little to do with the events that transpired weeks earlier on a hill in Jerusalem, called “Calvary”. … The Gospel’s narrative began in the surrounding cities and towns, but God would soon use the moment to proclaim the power of his word the world, … not at the hands of those educated in the finest institutions or the great theologians of the day, but rather by a devoted troop of fishermen and tax collectors assembled for a particular purpose, … spreading the word to all mankind.

Fear is a natural phenomenon, … especially when we are not in complete control, on the other hand there are certain things that we do not have to fear because of the comfort and familiarity of our surroundings. Fear can have a positive or negative effect on us depending on the situation or expected outcome. Just as well fear at its most extreme can paralyze where we neither move forward or backward, bringing our lives to an immediate halt.