Keep Calm And Carry On

Keep Calm And Carry On

John 14:1-3

14 "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

   If any other human body on this Earth, ever experienced sorry and grief on the heart of a man besides Job, if was Jesus the Christ the Son of God, Son of man.  Jesus in His own Words, above recorded by the disciple whom He loved, is not giving a rebuke to His disciples.  Oh no Beloved, He is giving the ONLY reasonable alternative for those who would be called sons of the Most High.  He is well acquainted  with sorrow, for one of His many names was Man of Sorrows.  Jesus, shortly after explaining to His disciples what was about to happen, knew as He spoke these Words, that He was going to experience sorrow, betrayal, pain, grief, loneliness, brokenness, humiliation, isolation, and the damning of God on an infinite scale for the entire weight of humanity past, present, and future.  Yet, He knew it was for the eternal prize and the pleasing admonition of God the Father saying, "Well done My Son"  after the cross.  Jesus clung to what He knew, even in His human frailty He knew the scope, plan, and promises of God the Father, so He endured.

  Man can endure things on a scale that is mind boggling, examples of this are seen in the martyrdom of the Saints past, and those who continue to suffer.  They endure.  They cling on to the hope and promises of God, and marched and march to their martyrdom.  Paul the Apostle awaiting execution wrote this beautiful passage for the Saints, guided by the Holy Spirit, to KNOW what promises awaited them.  

"3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." 2nd Timothy 4:7

   Only a child of God could and can say such a thing.  See Beloved Paul Kept Calm, and Carried On!  He had the promises of God hidden deep within his heart.  These "Keep Calm" posters that folks around the web have taken and changed up with different slogans and such, as of recent months, most don't know their origin.  This slogan is from WWII Great Britain, and was a motivational propaganda tool for a country that had been isolated, her allies had fallen, and she stood alone against the darkness.  The Third Reich, Axis powers had isolated her.  Her Army had to do a fighting withdrawal of troops of the mainland continent of Europe at Dunkirk.  She had been under the bombing of the Luftwaffe and she stood alone, yet she kept up the "Good Fight" until Providence intervened and the Lord raised up allies in His timing.  I don't know Beloved, what you face in life, but I do know trouble doesn't escape anyone, cancer doesn't discriminate, death has a 100% mortality rate. Oh child of God in Christ, Keep Calm and Carry On.  You have the promises of God and the promise of Jesus.  Love in Christ Jason.