Luke 4:23 “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, ‘“Physician, heal yourself.”
After conferring with a trusted source it is apparent that the parable referenced here is not a biblical proverb but is a saying commonly used by Jews in social situations. An antidote as it were. Which brings me to the issue today, good advice is good advice even if we cannot find it in scripture.
I had a nightmare two nights ago and it was so upsetting I refused to go back to sleep for fear it would come back. Eventually I talked to the Father about my deep seated fear and His answer came back to me as it often does in the issues of remembrances of scripture.
Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
This was the Father’s way of telling me “Trust me!”
A memory of my past comes to mind when I prayed about my fear in Vietnam. When I went to “the garden” and prayed there was no scriptural remembrance, that night I was wounded and taken to a hospital. I know that does not sound like being under the shadow of His wings but then while in the hospital a fellow soldier came to be a patient there.
While I was in the hospital safe and sound with a minor wound my unit had their first nasty encounter with the enemy and I had been spared a worse fate that might have happened. His wounds were devastating and others had died. At the moment I was shot, it did not feel like God’s protective covering, but later it appears it was exactly that.
Whatever fate befalls us we need to trust God. We must not allow fear to drive us to anything except prayer.
I know this present danger is fraught with possibilities but we must not allow fear to control us.
Trust God for the possible in view of the probable because Jesus has overcome the world and everything is in His capable hands.
John 13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,
He is seated on the throne where the enemy cannot come and since our lives are hidden in Him, we have nothing to lose. Trust Him.
Colossians 3:3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.