Numbers :24: No Fear!

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it.
“No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them. - Num. 24:19-21 NIV

We have just returned from a trip to California to visit family and friends.  Whule we were there, we attended a worship service, held in the local Boys and Girls Club, where people from several churches got together to do nothing but praise and worship the Lord.  It was one of the most moving worship experiences we have had since we left our little church in Jockey Hollow, New Jersey.  If I were to use one sentence to describe that night, it would be, "The shout of the King was among us!"

We Christians, worry so about our place, our security in the world, just as the Israelites were prone to do.  And just like the Israelites, we are oblivious of the power we possess, a power that the world is aware of far more than we are.  Whether or not we acknowledge it, the world is afraid of the power of God and of those who possess his power.  We have the power of God in our midst, the God who only does wondrous things, and yet we concede that right to all of the principaliies and powers that are helpless in his presence.

I came away from that night convinced that we need to worship more and worry less.  The LORD our God is with us; the shout of the King is among us!  We have nothing to fear!