Ironworks

“I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”  (Psalm 37:25)           God’s blessings are bountiful, but when tragedy strikes the blessings are even sweeter. When you do not know where to go, or what to do, we need to let the Lord handle it. God will take care of us just as the Psalmist has said.            1 Peter 5:7 says, “1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.” At first glance we see that God cares for us and that’s why we can cast our anxieties upon Him. That is a great thought, and it does make you feel good that this is done fro you by the Lord, but there is more to it than that. When we look at the original text (Greek) we find that it really reads more like, “casting all of your cares upon Him, for He does the caring for you.” We give our anxieties to the Father, and the Father will worry about it.  ...

           I shudder to think what life would be like without God. After our wreck we saw a glimpse of how good the Lord can be. We were, and are truly blessed to be Christians and to have so many loving a caring brethren.           Romans 8:28 (KJV) says, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” This doesn’t mean that everything that happens to you is going to be good, but that the end result is going to be good. There are blessings that we don’t even know exist until the time comes. When considering the wreck; how could that be good? It wasn’t hard to see when the blessings started coming. I want to share some of those blessings with you right now.           The wreck itself had blessings. We are so thankful that nobody had any life-threatening injuries, but furthermore when we landed, we landed right-side up....