F.U.D.

Your life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. Deuteronomy 28:66

What an encouraging verse I found for today! Are those not the very words that we need in a time like this? Are we reading the same Bible verse? Like me, you have probably received such a ration of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) in the news over the past couple of weeks and months that it may seem like that curse on disobedience we see in our verse for today. Yes, there was a thing that preceded this curse, and it was that Israel obey the law. 

It was put simply to the new nation God had brought out of Egypt by His mighty power, obey and receive showers of blessings or disobey and receive curses such as that one in our verse for today. Reading the list of curses on disobedience in Deuteronomy 28, we might think that no one in Israel would ever disobey the law. And yet they did, often and at times with great zeal. So, are we living down a curse on disobedience? Maybe, but we should also recall the lesson of Job. 

Job did what was righteous in God's sight, and the Lord was proud to tell the Adversary about His child Job. And what happened when the Enemy was given leave to test Job's faith? Right, much loss first and then a skin disease. A disease? You mean one that might have been caused by a virus? Yes indeed, and Job had done nothing wrong to bring down any curse upon his head, or skin in this case. 

So, how about something encouraging from the word for those who live in the righteousness of faith in Jesus Christ: 

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16

I ain't so great, it is the grace of Christ in me!

Bucky