July 5, 2020 All Is Well
3 John 3 says: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
2 Timothy 1:7 says: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
Ephesians 4:11 says: “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
Here we have 3 very wonderful promises of God that make available to us a sound mind, prosperity in all avenues, freedom from fear and the ability to deal with negative situations brought on by devilish powers. The reason this is titled “All Is Well” is that if we amend our minds to these promises, we will find, that for our lives, all is well. That doesn’t mean that you’re not going to get sick from time to time, or have bloopers from time to time, but for all practical purposes, all will be well.
I have heard in TV commercials lately that we live in uncertain times. They are referring to the current times, but really, man is always living in uncertain times and has been since Adam and Eve gave it up in the Garden of Eden.
The only certain thing about our times right now is the reality of the greatness of God and His Word and God’s love. With that all is well: without that, all is not well, regardless of how well it seems. The god of this world will see to that –
2 Corinthians 4:4: “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
The Devil is the god of this world and unfortunately, until the return of Jesus Christ, he can do pretty much what he wants, as long as the unbelief is there. He works to stir people up and to keep a lid on God’s Word as much as he can. What the true God wants is for people like us to get stirred up for His Word and to put on the whole armor of God and to fight against those powers as much as we possibly can.
The long and short of it is that God is going to win in the end and the Devil knows this and so he will do whatever he can to keep us distracted and from thinking and speaking God’s Word.
In 2 Kings there is the record of a Shunammite woman who befriended the prophet Elisha and extended to him hospitality as was the Eastern custom at that time.
As the story unfolds between Verses 12-35 of the 4th chapter of 2 Kings, Elisha asks his servant Gehazi what could be done for the woman to extend hospitality back to her. He is told that her husband was old and that she was childless. In Verse 16, Elisha told the woman, by revelation, that she was going to have a son, which was a blessing in the Eastern Culture.
In the process of time, she does have a son and the son grows up. Out of nowhere, the child has a sudden problem with his head which ends up killing him. Now we stop the story right here and consider what the woman and her husband must have gone through emotionally having just lost their only child which they didn’t think they were going to have in the first place. I can only imagine that it would be gut wrenching to lose your only child suddenly as in an accident. It could be unbelievably depressing.
This woman faced a situation a lot bigger than the uncertainties of current circumstances, and she kept herself outwardly positive and I believe inwardly as well and went to confront the man of God as to how she felt. As she approached him he sent his servant to meet her and she had the presence of mind to tell Gehazi in Verse 26 that “…all is well.”
She had her mind fixed on God and the power of God. Elisha went and ministered to her son and raised him from the dead by the power of God. If that wouldn’t raise one’s believing, I don’t know what would.
Even in troubling times, if we believe God’s promises, we can say, “all will be well”. What we want to do is to put on the mind of Christ and know that things will be made right. It is always a great comfort when we rise up to our believing privileges and see God’s Word working in our lives. That’s when we will see things going as they should.
Romans 12:2: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good , and acceptable, and perfect will of God.”
Perhaps our biggest challenge is the neighbors and what we let the neighbors do to our heads. Neighbors includes the media, the news and all the other things that the Devil uses to get our minds into unbelief and off the greatness of God’s promises concerning health and prosperity.
Fear has always been a prime mover in our culture and it’s especially high at this time because of the medical issues that our country is concerned with. The best thing we can do about that is pray. Romans 8:26 is a great start because it instructs us to speak in tongues for the things which we can’t clearly see and understand.
There’s very little in the senses realm you can do to make a change in these kinds of situations. You can’t just cast a vote at the ballot box, but we can pray in the spirit a lot and we can talk to God about the things we know need to change.
So yes, there is a lot going on and as far as we are concerned, we represent the light of God’s Word.
1 John 1:5b: “…God is light and in him is no darkness at all.”
Verse 7a “If we walk in the light as he is the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”
Physical light dispels physical darkness and spiritual light dispels spiritual darkness and gives physical health. Why not focus on being a spiritual light which will always put us in a position to say “all is well”.
Funglimpses and all. Thanks for reading. Respectfully submitted. Will Grove