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Confidence VS Shrinking
BY: Kathy Kearney

I John 3:28  “And now little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.”

Shameless Confidence

Nearly everyone has financial problems from time to time.  But let me tell you, when I have them, they drive me up a wall.  Most of the time I would rant and rave to my husband about how I can’t take this anymore.  Why doesn’t God provide the money when it’s needed, not when it’s two weeks too late?

Why doesn’t He give us enough to do the things we want, rather than barely enough to pay our obligations?



I Can't Take It Anymore!
BY: Kathy Kearney


I remember fear.  The kind that wakes you in the night gloating over its devastation of yesterday while threatening worse for tomorrow.  I remember lying there shaking, jerky breaths forcing its way past a tight throat.  Slipping out of bed, I would kneel in our den with my Bible, frantically clutching at verses from the Psalms, pleading with God to deliver me from this overwhelming as one hopeless day gave way to another.
 
 Agoraphobia: fear of the marketplace.  This unrelenting terror stalked into every room of my life demanding dominion and dread—a  world without end, until I dreaded anyplace away from the safety and security of home.



In Everything?
By Kathy Kearney (C) 1973


I Thessalonians 5:18 gives this rather terse bit of advice.  No, not advice, but a command.  “In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”

Pleasant injunction.  I get $5 from an unexpected source for an emergency, and my grateful heart rushes to do this verse’s bidding.  All is smooth and “the medicine goes down.”

Up until a certain incident in my life, I never had a scrap of trouble with that verse—until five years ago.



Laying It Down Is So Hard To Do
BY: Kathy Kearney

In a recent Wednesday night Bible study, our pastor touched on a passage from:

I John 3: 16: “. . .He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay our lives down for each other.”
 
Die for my family in Christ?  No sweat!
 
Fantasy: My Christian sister is standing in the middle of the road with a twenty?ton semi plummeting straight for her unsuspecting self.  I throw myself between them.  Voila!  My sister is alive and well on planet earth, and I am alive and well in heaven.  Send me back to earth, and I can do the same thing every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

It’s never the big death that makes me hesitate.  That’s the stuff heroes and sagas are made of.  Besides, it can only happen once.



    Shrink Wrapped
By: Kathy Kearney


Now, little children abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming. I John 2:28

Recently, in our weekly Bible study, I was teaching the second chapter of First John.  When I came across these verses I thought, sure I know exactly what they mean.  The abiding walk of the Christian has to do with being about our Father’s work when He comes for us.  Simple enough interpretation; but I always forget the application.



ABRAHAM TIMES
By :Kathy Kearney (c) 2003


I have Abraham times.

A year ago I suffered an autoimmune collapse that resulted in swollen joints, (shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers), accompanied by severe atrophy of my leg and arm muscles.  The pain was constant and depressing.

We had just moved to Arizona the week before it hit and down I went like a ton of bricks.  No medication worked, no method of therapy reached it.  I sat on the couch, a pain-filled sack of potatoes and wept in fear that my life was over; convinced that long years of pain and uselessness stretched before me.


Kathy Kearney, published author of Christian short stories, Christian articles, Plays, Monologues, Old Fashioned Melodrama's -- Also Bible Study Teacher and public speaker. Her Bible Studies are on the site in a Blog format! Those can be accessed from the site.  Please check back OFTEN because I add two two three per week to keep the site fresh!! I know you will find these enjoyable because Kathy loved the Word and it shows in her teaching.

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