Dec 27, 2007
Is 43:1-3 - But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I give Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in exchange for you.
These verses so paint a picture of why we should not fear, I fear it is hard to improve on them. But, I do want to make an observation, which is that it isn’t if we got through waters or through rivers or walk through fire, it is when. We all walk through these fires in life and when we do, we are to fear not, because our sovereign and powerful God who looking back has created us, redeemed us and called us by name. As we look forward we also realize that he will be with us, that He is our savior. God is behind and before us and beside us.
2 Sa 7:22-24 - “How great you are, O Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears. And who is like your people Israel—the one nation on earth that God went out to redeem as a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to perform great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before your people, whom you redeemed from Egypt? You have established your people Israel as your very own forever, and you, O Lord, have become their God.
There is no one like our God. The wonders he has done should lead us to fear Him and Him only. He has proved himself over and over again. He redeems us, performs great and awesome wonders, and he has established us as his own, forever… There is no one to fear!’
