September 3, the I will of God.

Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls

because of the multitude of people and livestock in it.

And I will be to her a wall of fire all around, declares the Lord.

And I will be the glory in her midst, Zechariah

2, 4 and 5.

There are mornings when I wake up feeling fragile, vulnerable.

It's often vague, no single threat, no one weakness, just an amorphous sense that

something is going to go wrong and I will be responsible. It's usually after a lot of criticism,

or maybe after a lot of expectations that have deadlines and that

seem too big and too many.

As I look back over about 50 years of such periodic mornings, I am amazed how the Lord Jesus has preserved

my life and my ministry.

The temptation to run away

from the stress

has never won out.

Not yet anyway.

This is amazing.

I worship my great God for this.

Instead of letting me sink into a paralysis of fear or run to a mirage of greener grass,

he has awakened a cry for help and then answered with concrete promises.

Here's an example. This is recent. I woke up feeling emotionally fragile, weak, vulnerable.

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