Feeling frustrated with the world i live in. Australia has turned into a prison island. They are shooting peaceful protesters with rubber bullets. They spray old people with pepper sprays, more and more they deny work for the unvaccinated, and making laws to shut them out of Medicare and government pensions.
i have been fighting increasingly hard to keep my anxiety times under check but it is getting harder and harder. i fear for my children and grandchildren. What does the future hold?
The dark forces of evil are attacking humanity from everywhere.
i pray Jesus keeps us safe.
Beloved one, let us consider again what we have heard our Lord said:
“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.””
John 16:33 NKJV
Beloved one, our Lord asked us to be in Him.Yes, our Lord asked us to stayed united in Him.
Beloved one, we are not of the world though we are in the world. Our Lord said in the world we have tribulation.
What is tribulation?
tribulations is defined as a cause of great trouble or suffering or a state of great trouble or suffering.
Yet our Lord told us to be of good cheer, that is, to find joy in union with Him, for our Lord Jesus Christ have overcome the world, that is, our Lord have overcome tribulation and fear, that is in the world.
So beloved one, don’t be frustrated with the world, but let us be of good cheer.
And let us be united in the Lord.
For we heard:
“
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
Romans 8:35 NKJV
So apostle Paul told us to stay united with the love of Christ, even the tribulation shall not separate us from His love.
For we also heard:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
II Corinthians 1:3-4 NKJV
Beloved one,
this assurance we have when we are in tribulation that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us.
Why there is tribulation? This is what we have heard:
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, -Romans 2:9
So what also said about tribulation:
“And not only that,
but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”
Romans 5:3-5 NKJV
“For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son,
much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but
we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.”
Romans 5:10-11 NKJV
So beloved one, let us glory in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation produce in us the perseverance of Christ, produce in us the character of Christ, produce in us the hope of Christ. Now the hope of Christ does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
So beloved one, let us be thankful to Christ that we shall be saved by His life. Let us be of good cheer in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
For we also heard:
“And I said to him, “Sir, you know.” So he said to me, “These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation,
and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.”
Revelation 7:14 NKJV
“I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.”
Isaiah 61:10 NKJV
So beloved one, let us wash our robes or our self righteousness and made them white in the blood of the lamb. For we should submit ourselves to God’s righteousness through faith in Christ Jesus.
Beloved one, let us also consider this:
“yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while.
For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word,
immediately he stumbles.”
Matthew 13:21 NKJV
For we all stumble in many ways.
And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. -James 3:2
So beloved one, let us consider our Lord who does not stumble in what He said, for our Lord is a perfect man, also able to bridle His whole body. When we are united with Christ as His body, He is able to bridle us and we united in Him will not stumble in what we in Him, said.
So when tribulation arises because of the word, we who have rooted ourselves united in Him, we immediately would not stumble.
Also about tribulation, this is also we have heard :
““Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.”
Matthew 24:9 NKJV
“strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.””
Acts 14:22 NKJV
Beloved one, let us bear the suffering of tribulation for the Lord’s name sake. Let us as the Lord’s disciples, let our souls be exhorted to continue in the faith, and saying, “We must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”
For our Lord also said about tribulation :
““
I know your works,
tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.”
Revelation 2:9 NKJV
Beloved one, our Lord knows our tribulation.Also, we need to perceive what our Lord knew the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews by nature and are not, but they are a gathering of Adversary of God.
Also we heard:
“so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God
for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer;
since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you,”
II Thessalonians 1:4-6 NKJV
So beloved ones, let us walk in the commendation that apostles have us; let us endure the tribulation with patience of Christ
and faith in Christ. Let us be counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which we also suffer; since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble us.
Also about tribulation, this is we heard:
When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days,
you will return to the LORD your God and obey his voice. -Deuteronomy 4:30 ESV
Beloved one, let us return to the Lord wholeheartedly to the Lord our God and obey His voice, that in Him we shall peace and united with Him through faith, we overcome tribulation and fear, that is in the world.
May God’s peace be multiplied to you.
To God be praise and glory and honor. Amen.