TODAY’S WORD FOR MONDAY JANUARY 4, 2016.
HURT
Cause body or mental pain; do harm or mischief; injure; insult; affect emotionally.
“Look!” he said, “I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” Daniel 3:25.
It is impossible to get through life without suffering hurt and pain. Some hurts are physical caused by sickness or injury. Other hurts are emotional caused by how we are treated by others. Most physical hurts heal with time but emotional hurts are difficult to heal and some can even affect us for a lifetime.
As believers, it is very important how we respond to emotional and spiritual hurts. When we respond by relying on our own thinking the hurt may never leave us. The way we respond can affect our spiritual life. Hurts and the threat of hurts can cause us to doubt and lose our faith. But when we learn to turn our hurts over to Jesus, He will respond and we will have victory.
In the verse above we are given a wonderful example how God will take us through situational hurts that we would never conquer. Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego were facing physical harm because they refused to obey the command of King Nebuchadnezzar to bow down to the King’s statue in worship. They believed in God and stayed true to their faith even though they knew defying the King was going to mean that they faced death.
But God protected them and, as the verse above tells us, they were not hurt. Three people were thrown into the fire but when the King looked he saw four men. God sent someone from heaven to protect these men because of their faith. The King was certain what he saw was a heavenly being.
In Daniel 6:16 we read about Daniel being thrown into the lion’s den. King Darius made it a law that no one could pray to any god but him. The punishment for breaking the law was to be cast into a den of lions for 30 days. After 30 days when the king ordered Daniel out of the lion’s den no injury or hurt was found on him. God protected him and Daniel told the king, “My God sent His angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me.”
There is one more example that we would like to share with you from the scriptures. In Acts 18: 9-10, the Apostle Paul was in Corinth preaching to the Jews telling them that Jesus was the Christ. The Jews opposed Paul and became so abusive that Paul decided to quit preaching to them. But the scripture tells that the Lord spoke to Paul in the night and told him to continue to preach to the Jews in Corinth without fear and no one would hurt him. Paul realized that he must remain faithful to what God had called him to do in spite of the threat of hurt.
These examples are for us, teaching us to rely on God’s protection. When a hurt comes your way, lay that hurt in the hands of Jesus.
Our memory verse for this week is found in that Mark 16:15.
And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
Thank You that when hurts come my way that I can turn them over to you and that I can have the confidence that You will heal those hurts.
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