The natural byproduct of
adversity of any sort, whether physical, financial, relational or emotional, is
fear. Jesus was “a man of sorrow,
acquainted with grief”, and the Apostle Paul said we saints “are called to adversity”,
proving this point by a life filled with pain, hardship, and suffering of every
sort. We will all at times hit Speed-Bumps on The Way for God does not always
give us overcoming life... sometimes He gives us life as we overcome. The
spiritual precept for faithfully enduring difficult times was given to us in
God’s word using the Imperative Indicative grammatical construction... A
command followed by a statement of fact: Whenever scripture gives us a command
it backs it up with a statement of fact that boasters and undergirds the
command, making it a grace issue and not merely an issue of law. For adversity
and fear God’s Imperative Indicative is simple: Fear Not... the command, For I
Am With You... the statement of fact.
Throughout scripture the Lord’s response to adversity and its step-child
fear is the same: “Fear not, for I Am with you.” This is why it is essential we
pursue God during hard difficult times... during Bad, not merely pursuing an
answer or desired outcome, but “enduring as seeing Him who is invisible”... pursuing
God’s presence. God seems to think His presence in the cauldron of adversity is
enough to move the mountain of fear releasing in its place His peace that is
better than understanding... that is better than knowing why. And He’s right...
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