Mom Heart Moments #15

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its remotest parts and said to you, “You are My servant, I have chosen you and not rejected you. Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”

RECENTLY, I recalled one of the first times I felt panic about the difficult circumstances of my life. There had been lots of tension in Poland between the Polish workers and the Russians who controlled the country, and I was a young missionary living there —illegally. People had begun to riot and rebel, and Russian tanks began to roll into Warsaw, where we lived. Many of the streets were lined with soldiers, and the threat of war was in the paper and on the news every day. I remembered thinking, What am I doing over here in a time of war? I am not sure if I am ready to die in this conflict just now. We had been ministering in Hungary and touched the bullet holes in apartment buildings of people we had worked with, where a similar revolt had caused the loss of hundreds of lives.

When I came across this passage in Isaiah, I camped on it. I resolved that I would stand on it emotionally and spiritually.

The Lord was faithful, and we came through the conflict with Him holding our hands.

Since then, many other times and seasons have come where fear threatened to take away my peace. Yet I have a pattern of remembrance now, of the ways He has been faithful through all the seasons and hard times.

Do you find yourself worried over many things? Make a list. Then write at the top today’s Scripture from Isaiah . . . and throw the list away.