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Monday... Asking the what if question can be a great reminder.


Monday... Asking the what if question can be a great reminder.

My mom's birthday was at the end of last month. What if she hadn't been born, what if she hadn't become a Christian, what if she wouldn't have met my dad, what if they hadn't gotten married? But she was and she did and on June 1st, almost 75 years ago I came into this world because God brought everything together.

You could do the same thing with your life. Asking the what if question can be a great reminder, can't it?

Well David in Psalm 124:1 (NLT) writes, "What if the Lord had not been on our side?" 

Now for some they don't realize that God has been a part of their life on the outside because they haven't had a relationship with Him and they haven't had the benefits of that relationship. But He has. He has been there putting situations in their life, striving to get them to come to Him but their what ifs can be great disappointments and deep regrets.

David writes in verses 2-5, "What if the Lord had not been on our side when people attacked us? They would have swallowed us alive in their burning anger. The waters would have engulfed us; a torrent would have overwhelmed us. Yes, the raging waters of their fury would have overwhelmed our very lives."

Then verses 6 & 7 (MSG), "O blessed be God! He didn't go off and leave us. He didn't abandon us defenseless, helpless as a rabbit in a pack of snarling dogs. We've flown free from their fangs, free of their traps, free as a bird. The grip is broken; we're free as a bird in flight."

I don't know what you are going through right now but I wonder if you need to be reminded of some what ifs in your past.  What would your life had been like if He hadn't been with you? Just stop and remind yourself that He is with your even now and what a difference that has made and is making in your life.

And we need to be reminded of what David says in verse 8 (NLT), "Our help is from the Lord who make heaven and earth." The what ifs in our life can and will remind us that He is and has been in our life and what a difference He has made.  Asking the what if question can be a great reminder. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning
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