FEAR YE NOT

"FEAR YE NOT" AUDIO BLOG

We are of more value to God than many sparrows.
Even the very hairs of our head are all numbered.

GOD IS GREAT - ALL THE TIME!

Heavenly Father, thank you for our many blessings, too many to count. Thank you for making our path straight. Thank you for reminding us everyday that you are here, you are real, and you are our God, the creator of the heavens and the earth. Let Your words always be mine, and let Your children always hear them. Amen.

Some time during the night of March 26-27, 2022, I began dreaming about scripture. I wrote most of this blog on March 27, but, once again, I was a slow learner in connecting the dots. I looked at it today for the first time two weeks after writing it, and it just .. made sense. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus.

So, I dreamed about scripture on March 26-27, just repeating the same scripture-based dream over and over, and then I awoke, and could not remember the scripture or the dream. So frustrating, right? So, I went back to sleep, trying to get back to that dream, chasing it.

Then, clear as day, a scripture came to me in my sleep: Matthew 10:31 below. Later, lying there half asleep, I wondered if there even was a v. 31 in Matthew 10. Just writing that makes me sad that I do not yet have faith in God. Forgive me, Lord.

So, what did Jesus tell me, when I was wrestling all night, chasing a dream? Matthew 10:31: "Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows."

He loves us! He will never forsake us!

God truly is great, all the time!

So, I fell asleep again and received Matthew 12:1: "At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat."

This is where I was having trouble connecting the dots, so to speak. What did the two scriptures, Mat. 10:31,12:1 have to do with each other?

The Sabbath Was Made For Man

From the two scriptures, we learn that Jesus loves (values) his followers (disciples) more than many sparrows, and, therefore, rebukes the Pharisees, who say that the poor and/or hungry cannot eat on the Sabbath. Basically, He is telling them that, once again, they do not understand the spirit of Law.

It seems Jesus was a bit of a rebel. We know He could have easily turned two ears of corn into a full meal for His disciples, but He did not. He knew that the Pharisees were watching and would criticize them for plucking, cleaning and eating the corn on the Sabbath. He used the opportunity to teach the Pharisees, as well as His disciples, about the Sabbath: The Sabbath was made for man; man was not made for the Sabbath; and, that the spirit of the Sabbath was to do the Lord's Will: to worship your God; and, to care for, feed and heal the sick and needy and poor in spirit; and, not to stay locked up in your house, cruelly letting the stricken suffer alone.

That being said, what did Holy Spirit want us to know about today? I sometimes pray for God to give me His Word for His children today; what does He want us to know today?

With wars and rumors of wars, inflation up 40%, threats of famine and threats of empty shelves at grocery stores, plagues, pestilence, signs and wonders, happening all around us and the world, Jesus Christ wants us to know that He loves (values) us! more than many sparrows! 

Jesus loves us! He has not forsaken us. We will be plucking fresh ears of corn, and doing God's work. He is setting us free to serve Him!

It also shows us, however, that we should know how to fend for ourselves. Jesus tells us that we will be persecuted for His name: "and his disciples were hungry"; that sounds a bit persecuted, hungry enough to pluck the corn on the Sabbath, in front of Jesus.

You would think they would be well fed, traveling with the King of Kings. Even so, traveling with the King of Kings, already having seen the miracles of which He was capable, i.e., casting out demons; healing those impaired from birth, et cetera, they still fed themselves, fended for themselves. They were well capable of feeding themselves. After all, He gave us every herb and every tree for food. Gen. 1

As God has shared with us previously, the Harvest has been ongoing for some time. Now, however, is the time for everyone, believers and unbelievers, to reap what they have sown. Blessings and curses, curses and blessings: The giving will get more to give, to do the Lord's work, and the thieves will pay back sevenfold:

"But if he (the thief) be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house." Prov. 6:31

This is the time into which we are coming, a glimpse, if you will, for God's children to see the paradise promised. The story, however, does not end here. Some men (unbelievers) will still have nothing but evil thoughts continually. Some hearts will be hardened forever, and some will be awakened forever! Praise God.

What we choose to do with our blessings is up to us. I pray that whatever we do collectively, as the body of Christ, will light up the world with God's light, so that the ones who love darkness because their deeds are evil will never again be able to dim the Light of Christ around the world.  John 3:19 below. 

Praise God. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.
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