Below are two short devotionals that I hope will bless your hearts.

SEASONS

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; Ecclesiastes 3:1-2a KJV

What season of life are you in now? Every man goes through changes as he ages that are, for the most part, God-ordained. Young men are called to bear yokes older men can no longer support. Older men bring wisdom to the table many young men lack.

Happy is the man who is content with whatever season of life he’s in. Bitter is the man who laments the passing of one season to the next. God has called us to live the allotted years He’s assigned to us. We must never look back to a previous season with regret, nor should we look ahead to the next season with presumption. While we are alive today, let’s love this present season and fully embrace the gift of life while we can.

George Myline wrote:

“God’s purposes have all their seasons of fulfillment. His judgments each have their time of visitation. Mapped out in clear perspective, your every dispensation was fixed from everlasting in the eternal mind of God.”

A MAN WHO WILL NOT FEAR

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. Psalm 46:1-3 KJV

Every man is prone to some sort of fear. He may fear financial lack, relationship failure, vocational loss, health decline, and more. But every one of those fears and all others are vanquished when God is our very present help in trouble. Nothing can shake the man whose life is rooted in the providence of God.

When a man is easily shaken, it’s time to become unshakable. It’s time to shift our burden from our shoulders to God’s strong back.

A man’s fears may be few or many, but every one of them is conquerable through Christ. The very purpose of trouble in our lives may be God’s way of proving Himself as trustworthy while also making us unshakeable.

F.B. Meyer wrote:

“God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst…will be quiet in the middle of alarm.”

May these “Words of Thought” be a blessing unto you.
Troy Chandler
Chaplain, Army of Trans-Mississippi