💥 Peace restored by God

Barbara Preston, member of the body of Christ

Sometimes someone will say something that steals peace from you whenever it comes to your mind. As Christians, it is our responsibility and our privilege to take the issue to God and talk to HIM about it.  Pouring out our hearts before HIM, being careful not to think we can hide anything from GOD, as we can from humans.

A while back something happened that was like this so I ended up taking it to God in order to get free from the troubling I had after it happened.

When my granddaughter was in high school, I had a lot of concern for her over things like sex and drugs and alcohol, knowing that society has become much more promiscuous as time has passed and being aware of the dangers she would face, especially as she entered college.

I prayed for her, of course, but I remained worried about her.

I verbally warned her about the drug and alcohol problem, but the sexual temptations she would face troubled me the most.

I knew she needed to know what God said about sex. Her mother and father are not born again so they would not be talking to her about these things. There was no one but me in the family to do this.

So I prayed, asking God to help me know what to say and wrote it out in a letter and mailed it to her.

There was never any doubt in my mind about doing this. I knew it was my responsibility to give this information to her.

 

Then a while back I was talking to another Christian and told her this story.

She listened and said … You know you won’t receive any credit from God for doing this unless HE told you to do it.

I was so stunned I couldn’t say anything.

After the conversation ended, of course, I thought quite a bit about what she had said and it kept troubling me.

 

Had I been wrong in sending this letter? But I knew I had to be the one to tell her what GOD said about sex before marriage and how, in God’s eyes, you become one flesh with every person you have sex with. How, even if a man had sex with a prostitute, he became one flesh with her. What fornication was and what a sin this was before God. How could I have possibly kept silent on this when I knew the danger she was in and how desperately she needed to know these things?

 

I wanted her to know what God Who created sex, in the first place, said about it and how important it was to follow what God said rather than follow the desires of her flesh and the fleshly desires of the boys she would end up being around.

 

But I also knew I had to deal with what this woman had said. Hearing this had allowed doubt to creep into my thoughts, where there had never been any doubt. I needed to get this resolved.

 

So I talked to God about it, laying it out before HIM, asking HIM if I had someway handled this the wrong way.

 

After doing this, God gave me the following vision …

I was standing by the side of a lake. I saw my granddaughter in the middle of the lake and her arms were flailing, as she was trying to keep from going under water. It was obvious she was drowning.

Right after seeing this, I looked around and saw, not far from where I stood, a life preserver on the shore of this lake. I picked it up and threw it to her and she was able to grab hold of it.

I believe God was showing me that the information I sent to her in that letter was this life preserver, and I find this so interesting. 

 

The Word of God, when we hear it and obey it, is the ultimate life preserver, keeping us safe while we live on this earth and teaching us to trust God with everything. 

 

I didn’t receive the help I needed until I took this to God.  HE knew what I needed in order to be restored and at peace again in this situation, and I am so grateful for HIS wisdom. 

 

 

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