Wednesday // 27th March 2024
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled!
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me.
John 14:1
On the very night before His crucifixion, Jesus spoke to His disciples and told them not to let their hearts be troubled. That wasn’t a suggestion, it was a command. Jesus wasn’t speaking to these men in a time of prosperity and peace when everything was going great. Most people feel that when everything is going along fine, only then they should be praising God and operating in joy and peace. And when negative things come, they act as though they hardly have some responsibility for their emotions. And when big problems come, they justify themselves saying: No one can God expect to overcome in this situation!
The Lord was talking to His disciples just before they would face a tremendous trial. He knew that what they were going to experience was greater than anything they had ever known. He knew they were going to see what they considered their whole life — their whole calling and everything they had sacrificed for — crucified, destroyed, and defeated. He knew they weren’t going to understand what was happening to them in that terribly trying time. Yet, He told them, “Don’t let your heart be troubled.” Jesus would be unjust to give someone a command like that if that individual did not have the power to do what He said. Those disciples did have the power to keep their hearts from being troubled. We are not like animals which just respond to their environment. We are people created in the image of God who have the power of choice. (See Deuteronomy 30:19) It is time to walk in that authority and take control of our feelings.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin