Seize the Moment – Day 1043
Nothing to Lose!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, January 24.
Have you ever felt like you had nothing to lose? When you get to this point in life, you are willing to take risks that you normally wouldn’t take – it can either be a point of desperation or a time of great hope! Either way it can look like a Hail Mary pass in the final seconds of the big game – it may feel desperate, but as long as the pig skin is spiraling through the air, there is still hope!
Job makes a powerful statement of faith in Job 13:15a, “Though He slay me, I will hope in Him.” This is one of the great faith statements of Job because it demonstrates how he is more concerned with proving God’s justice than with the preservation of his own life. In preparing for his own acquittal, he predetermined that whatever God decided to do was right. He had nothing to lose by waiting upon God. He was not throwing his life away with a Hail Mary pass, He was entrusting it into God’s hands!
Daniel 3:16-18 is another powerful example of trusting God’s justice. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego told the king of Babylon that they trusted God in life and death when he confronted them with being thrown in the fiery furnace for not bowing to his idol:
O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.
Seize the moment and trust your life into God’s hands – you have nothing to lose and everything to gain! Touch down!
God bless you!
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