This can happen to anyone when they least expect it,
and sometimes even when everything else is going wrong.
“But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord;
He is their strength in the time of trouble.”
Psalm 37:39 NKJV
Flat Tire
Contrast
Against The Light
“This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.”
John 3:19 NIV
Vulture In Flight
They’re not as scary up there, but they are “eyeing” the dead and the dying.
“that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
2 Thessalonians 2:12 NKJV
Song Sparrow
“Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth,
Who have upheld His justice.
Seek righteousness, seek humility.
It may be that you will be hidden
In the day of the Lord’s anger.”
Zephaniah 2:3 NKJV
Kevlar
“And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;“
Ephesians 6:17 NKJV
The Lowly
“All this I have told you so that you will not fall away. 2 They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God. 3 They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.“
John 16:1-3 NIV
Chinese & Canada Geese
“I was sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
To a nation that was not called by My name.”
Isaiah 65:1 NKJV
Stripped & Striving
So thankful that He can see beyond earthly ‘trails’ to the very core of our being.
“What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.“
Romans 9:14-18 NIV
A Poor Goose Anytime
Canine Conundrum
Some go back to eat their vomit and they could care less about parasites.
“Watch out for those dogs, those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.”
Philippians 3:2 NIV