Day 6: Isaiah 8:13-14

"If you're going to worry, worry about the Holy. Fear God-of-the-Angel-Armies. The Holy can either be a Hiding Place or a Boulder blocking your way, the Rock standing in the willful way of both houses of Israel, a barbed wire Fence preventing trespass to the citizens of Jerusalem." ~Isaiah 8:13-14 MSG

If we're going to choose something to spend our time, energy and resources on, I don't think it should be worrying. Being scared. That's just a waste of precious resources! Precious, nonreturnable time! And though our energy is renewable, worrying and fretting literally DRAIN energy like watching an HD movie DRAINS your iPod battery. Yes, you can recharge it. But it takes a lot more time to recharge the battery from 15% to 100% than from 80% to 100%. If we're going to worry - it might as well be about things that God is actively involved in, something that can make a difference.

And if we have to be scared of something, I'd much rather be scared of an omnipotent God who loves us with a love so deep and wide that it is infinite than of a Satan who hates us just as strongly. God can really be frightening - but ultimately He loves us and everything He does He does to try and get us closer to Him. And if we have Him, there's no need to be afraid of Satan. I'd hate to have God for an enemy - because, as the Old Testament often shows, when God gets mad, oh boy does He get mad! He sent Israel, His own people, into exile twice, and then let the Romans conquer them. I'd much rather live my life so that God is my Hiding Place, living to please Him and love Him with all I am than drift into wickedness that would make Him a barbed wire fence.

So God help me to live a life pleasing to You, a life of faith. *Amen