The Lord, My God, Holds My Right Hand

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 These passed 15 years it seems like i've been crossing the paths of so many people who want to be enemies, who disrespect me for whatever reason or perception they may have of me.  Even churchgoers down the street.  Churchgoers!  i don't know if it's because i came in by myself and people thought i'm a weird loner or gay, or folks in the motel i'm staying are jealous of me because i don't need to share my huge queen-size bed with anyone.  They may just be hating the old man who died because i'm now renewed, a new man in Jesus Christ!  Isaiah could very well have been describing our Lord and Savior in Chapter 41: 10-13:

Fear not for I am with you; Be not dismayed for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you in my righteous right hand.  Behold all those who were incensed against you Shall be ashamed and disgraced; they shall be as nothing.  And those who strive with you shall perish.  You shall seek them and not find them--Those who contended with you.  Those who war against you Shall be as nothing.  As a nonexistent thing.  For I the Lord Your God will hold your right hand, saying to you, "Fear not, I will help you."

Lord, You are a supernatural Being who puts a spell of Your glory and total awe in me.  i trust You to be in the rest of my life.  i don't have the time i once had years ago but i pray that the renewed life You give me now will make up for all those lost years.  i believed at one time that there was only a creative source, listening to authors of self-help books and those who professed to know the Secret.  Many of them disregarded as i did the one true fact that i now truly believe:  Jesus Christ came to earth.  He lived and died at Calvary on the cross an descended into hell; on the third day He rose and ascended into Heaven after reassuring and meeting with His disciples for forty days.  And that, my Heavenly Father, is what i will do knowing that Jesus Christ is the only way to get to the Kingdom.

In Jesus' name.  Amen

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