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Sunday... But it backfires...


Sunday... There is so much that the Evil One and the wicked throws at us to hurt us or even destroy us but it backfires on him. Could that be true of the pandemic?

Psalm 7:14-16 (NLT) says, "The wicked conceives evil; they are pregnant with trouble and give birth to lies. They dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. The trouble they make backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their heads."

Now whatever happens to those who follow God it must first go through His love. It may have been thrown at us to hurt us, to hurt God, to hurt His plan. It says, "they dig a deep pit to trap others, then fall into it themselves. The trouble backfires on them." The trouble is thrown at us to hurt us, to destroy us but God changes the purpose and uses it for our good and many times it backfires on them and they fall into the pit themselves.

Could it be that the pandemic was sent out to hurt us even to destroy us but that God is using it to reach the world, to bring good out of it, to not destroy the church but to revive it and transform it so He can better use it for His glory? Maybe we should be stepping back and looking at what God is doing instead of complaining about what is happening.

Psalm 7:17 says, "I will thank God because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High." The pit of the pandemic may have been there to harm us or destroy us but God is using it for His glory. He knows what is happening and He is to be thanked. You see, "The trouble they make backfires on them." So, "I will thank God because he is just; I will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning  

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