The Terror Trap (Department Z Book 7) by John Creasey

Author:John Creasey [Creasey, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Ipso Books
Published: 2015-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Thursday. With the UWMC radiology team, Dr. Edward Kim, and at SCCA with Dr. Gabriella Chiorean, we listen as they reaffirm Dixie’s blood tests being good and that she is responding well to treatment at this time.

And perhaps best of all, each day this week, while alone undergoing radiation treatment, Dixie tells of finding great comfort in whispering silently to herself verses of Scripture as the Holy Spirit brings them to mind, though now she doesn’t recall exactly what they were or where they are to be found. Fruits of promise given in Dixie’s own KB experience, consumed in the very moment in which they are needed.

The real difference between the two spies—Joshua and Caleb—and the ten other guys is perspective. Joshua and Caleb looked back at who their God had been for them, remembering their triumph over Pharaoh and recent deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Based on how far their experience of trusting in God had brought them, they looked ahead to who and what their God would be in the face of new challenge and great opportunity. The result was a true perspective. For the two spies, theirs was the God of the impossible. The ten didn’t see God; they just saw the impossible. They could not get over their human inability to accomplish what lay ahead. The giants in the land were too big. Their God was too small.

The failure of the Israelites at KB is the central theme of Psalm 95. This Psalm begins with a call to worship, and ends with a warning; a warning not to be like the Israelites at KB (and wherever else they did more than their fair share of complaining). Praise is the preventative cure for complaining. It focuses on God and urges us to do likewise. It looks back upon the greatness of God and what he has done. It inspires faith and obedience. Our Lord’s gift of salvation at Calvary becomes the central point in our worship each time we approach the Lord’s Table (Eucharist).

All of us will experience some kind of KB experience at least once in our lives. A moment turning an otherwise ordinary day into the one where God allows a challenge to confront us that looks impossible. One requiring a ton of faith and obedience? Not necessarily. Maybe a mustard seed size faith will do (Matthew 17:20). Either we trust in God’s promises and power, obedient always to his will, or we are overcome by doubts and fears, remaining forever in a wilderness of defeat.

Dixie and I choose to go with the two and not the ten. The majority may rule, but their results are not always promising. We choose to walk by faith and encourage you to do likewise. That way when your KB comes along, and it will, you will be ready to meet the challenge, trusting God for the miracle, while at the same time obedient always to his will, finding strength, comfort and ultimate victory in him.

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