Don’t Judge a Book by It’s Cover or A Car by It’s Body

Three Weeks ago my wife tells me she would like to get a Mini-Van. So I get online and start a search of local Car dealerships to see what is out there. I came across a 2004 Nissan Quest. It looked fantastic from the pics but I am no amateur, I have seen the commercials, I check out the CARFAX. Well everything looked good on carfax so we go and look at the van first hand. Let me tell you this van has it all! You ask for it, it has it. We drive it and like it but there where some little things like one of the power sliding doors not working and the battery needing replaced. So I tell them I would like those things fixed and they say yes and we drive off with the Van.

I start noticing a puddle under the van and the puddle gets bigger and bigger. I take the van to my mechanic and he tells me that the Oil Pan is leaking the oil cool line is leaking, the power-steering line is leaking  and the right front axle needs replaced and that he didn’t want to touch it. l was crushed I should have had it checked out before I bought it but I was too caught up in the looks of the outside to take a look on the inside.

This had me thinking about the Scriptures and How God doesn’t judge a man from his outward appearance  but from the inward substance…

1 Samuel 16:7

King James Version (KJV)

⁷ But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

This was on my mind and I wanted to share. Oh and by the way, I called the dealership and they are fixing all the leaks and replacing the axle and I am only going to be out $120.00. Praise the Lord!

Deliverance from Fear

I have noticed that people (me) have a tendency for fear. I realize that this is due to the fall of man, after Adam had eaten of the fruit and sin entered into the world.  ^“And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid…”Genesis 3:10. I have in times past ask God to deliver me from the things that I fear. But just recently I have seen the way that the psalmist prays for deliverance.  Psalm 34: 4 “I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 64:1 “Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy” Did you see it?  The Psalmist did not pray necessarily for the deliverance from the things or people that he is afraid of but to be delivered from his FEAR of the things. If we are delivered from fear then it matters not what people may say or do against us. The same situation  may be there but we will lose no sleep over it because we have no fear of it. Pray today that the LORD will deliver you from your fear.