Saturday April 9 - The Fear of Falling

You can trust God in the dark, as well as in the light.

Read: Psalm 46

The eternal God is your refuge,  and underneath are the everlasting arms. – Deuteronomy 33:27  Have you ever dreamed that you were falling out of bed or from some great height,  and you awoke in fright?  I remember that as a boy I would often be awakened by such a terrifying feeling.

I heard about a man who had this sensation as soon as he slipped into sleep.  He was so rudely awakened by his sense of falling that he was afraid  to go back to sleep . He feared he would die,  and he imagined he was falling into a bottomless pit.  Then one evening as he was strolling through a cemetery,  he saw this phrase engraved on a tombstone.

UNDERNEATH ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS.

These words reminded him that when believers die, they are safely carried by the Lord to their home in heaven . He recalled the assurance of the psalmist,  “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,  I will fear no evil;  for You are with me.” (Ps. 23:4)

The once-fearful man realized that in life and in death and even in sleep,  the “everlasting arms” of our loving Lord are there to catch and hold us. That night he was able to sing what he was taught in childhood,  “Teach me to live that I may dread the grave as little as my bed! ” At last he could  fall asleep  without  fear.  -  M. R. De Haan, MD

I can trust my loving Saviour

When I fear the world’s alarms;

There’s no safer place of resting

Than His everlasting arms. – Hess

PRAYER:-

³ Pray that we would see many more teachers get involved in RI in schools. Pray that every child in Toowoomba would have opportunity to hear of Jesus’ love through RI. Pray that God would bring in a great harvest through this ministry.

³ Pray for the work of GRACE college in Myanmar.