Why
God Laughs
TODAY’S
SCRIPTURE
“He Who sits in the heavens
laughs…”
(Psalm 2:4, AMP)
TODAY’S
WORD
Have you ever imagined God
laughing in the heavens? Think about it for a moment. Right now, God is on the
throne. He’s not mad. He’s not worried about the economy. He’s not upset with
us. No, God is full of joy and laughing on the throne. It goes on to tell us in
Psalm 37 that He’s laughing because “He can see the destruction of the enemy
coming.” In other words, the reason God laughs is because He knows the end of
the story. He knows the final outcome. The good news is that you and I win. God
always causes us to triumph!
Imagine watching the Super
Bowl when you already know the outcome. You already know who is going to win.
No matter how far behind the winning team falls, no matter how bad it looks for
them, you wouldn’t get upset. You wouldn’t be worried. Why? Because you’ve got
inside information. You know the final outcome. That’s what God is saying to us
today. When it gets tough and things don’t look like they’re going to work out,
we know that with God we are on the winning team! Today, you can laugh with Him
knowing that He has favor, strength and victory in store for your future!
PRAYER
FOR TODAY
Father in heaven, I choose
to rest and trust in You. Thank You for bringing victory in every area of my
life. Give me opportunities today to share Your joy and love with the people
around me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
***
“Many of the people scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly, ‘Son of David, have mercy on me!’” (Mark 10:48 GN)
If you’re going to make a fresh start with faith in your life, you have to face your fears. Don’t let them control you! Fear has an incredible ability to paralyze our potential, to keep us from launching out, to keep us from having faith in our lives.
When we choose fear over faith, it makes us skeptical — we’re afraid of trying anything new when we’re afraid. It makes us selfish — we’re afraid to commit to God and to others. It makes us short sighted — we focus on the past and not on the future.
Bartimaeus faced a fear that is familiar to many of us — the fear of rejection. He knew that to shout out at Jesus in that crowd wasn’t the right thing to do. He knew that people would look down on him for it, but he was desperate. And he knew that Jesus Christ was the only one who could help him.
And look what happened: When he shouted out to Jesus, everyone around him told him, “Don’t do that. Be quiet. Don’t make a scene. Surely Jesus Christ isn’t interested in you. He has more important things to do.”
The devil whispers things like that to a lot of us. When that opportunity for faith comes into our heart, thoughts like “God surely wouldn’t be interested in you” or “Don’t make a scene” or “What would people think of you?” keep us from having faith. When you see an opportunity to change, there are all kinds of shouts from inside and around you that tell you not to rock the boat.
But God is asking you to do something greater than you’ve ever done before: He’s asking you to depend on him completely. Don’t you think that’s going to feel a little bit scary? Of course it is. And when God asks something of us, you and I have a choice. Are you going to fall back on your fear and stay the way that you are? Or are you going to tame your fear and step forward in faith?
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