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"Man is born to trouble.." (Job 5:7)

We are disappointed with ourselves, because we are not always what we want to be. We want to be strong, but we are weak. We want to be successful, yet we experience many failures. We want to be loved, but people are often indifferent toward us. This is God's cure for the heart problem:

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me. 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. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself; that where I am, there you are also. And where I go you know, and the way you know." (John 14:1-6)

The phrase He utters, "let not your heart be troubled," could simply mean, "don' be agitated, disturbed, or thrown into confusion." Christ says, "It may look like your world is falling apart and the darkness will overtake you, but don't let your heart be troubled." Christ is saying "relax."

Christ laid out the reasons why:
1. As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is a greater cause not to be. His word is true. (John 14:1)
2. We are going to heaven. (John 14:2) For our present troubles are small and wont last very long. Yet, they produce for us glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever.
3. He is coming back for us. (John 14:3) In our fallen world, we find relief for our troubled hearts in the promise that Jesus will come back to receive us unto Him.

The Lord Jesus will not merely send for us, but will come in person to escort us to His Father's house.
(1 Thess. 4:16-18)
"For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. The we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet he Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."
(John 14:3) He will receive us.

Three reasons, or three cures for heart trouble that Jesus offered can comfort and strengthen.
1. His word is true.
2. We are going to heaven.
3. He is coming back again for us.

These promises were made only to the children of Gd who have received Christ. Jesus revealed these truths to his disciples with this somewhat mysterious statement, "And where I go you know, and the way you know." I think Christ wanted them to ask what He meant.

The doubter doubt, even when the facts are clear, while skeptic looks carefully, wanting to see the truth for himself and herself. Who was really responsible for Jesus' death? Do we put the blame on the Romans? Do we put the blame on the Jewish? We DID! Our sins did. And more to the point, Jesus did not go to the cross against His will. He knew. Christ willingly went because there was no other way to satisfy the demands of a righteous God, who we offended. (John 15:13) (Acts 17:30)

(More to come...)