It's Gonna Be All Right

I remember my Dad shared something that had happened to him but ministered to him greatly some years ago. Tivo was the big digital recording system. He had set it to record a Dallas Mavericks game but heard the outcome of the game before he could watch it. He was happy to hear that the Mavericks had won the basketball game but he was enjoying the season so much that he decided to sit down and watch it anyway. Through three quarters, the Dallas Mavericks trailed, seeming destined to lose. My Dad was frustrated and started to coach them from his living room. In the third quarter when the game was still in doubt, he too began to lose hope in what he thought he’d heard. It was not until the last minutes into the fourth-quarter that things began to turn around with a victorious ending.

The Lord used this to remind him that we too get caught up in the everyday issues of life and get frustrated because we doubt our victorious ending we read in His Word.

We've been Tivoed!

We can choose to trust Him as we walk through life believing in the middle of what seems like a losing game. Or we can choose to remember that we win and have peace as we trail through on our way to victory.

The Word says that “in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us” Romans 8:37

In the book of Habakkuk, it says that Habakkuk began to call on God for help.  God answered him and said …”I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.” Habakkuk 1:5

This proves that we can know the outcome of a situation in advance and still not believe.

Once again, in 2Ki 7:16 (The Message), while there is a famine in the land of Samaria, Elisha the prophet says to the king "Listen! GOD's word! The famine's over. This time tomorrow food will be plentiful—a handful of meal for a shekel; two handfuls of grain for a shekel. The market at the city gate will be buzzing." But….The attendant on whom the king leaned for support said to the Holy Man, "You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?"
"You'll watch it with your own eyes," he said, "but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!"


(The next day) "Every word of the Holy Man to the king—"A handful of meal for a shekel, two handfuls of grain for a shekel this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria," with the attendant's sarcastic reply to the Holy Man, "You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?" followed by the response, "You'll watch it with your own eyes, but you won't eat so much as a mouthful"—proved true. The final stroke came when the people trampled the man to death at the city gate"
(2 Ki 1:16-20)

Let's not get trampled!  We just have to trust that He knows the end from the beginning and there's protection in us not knowing all the details.  We could fall into unbelief and mess it up.

What if God interrupted your day to tell you that “It’s gonna be all right.” 

I believe that’s exactly what He wants to say to us today ☺

His Word says Ps34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, But the LORD delivers him out of them all.


Prayer
Lord I pray for an undivided heart that trusts in You no matter what.
Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Co 15:57) Amen!