“Let NOT your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.” John 14:1

“Let not your heart be troubled”, literally means, “Do not be disturbed.”

A disturbance is an emotional imbalance, an absence of peace. It is like living with a whirlwind within you.

This usually happens when a person loses something or someone. Many become ‘disturbed’ by the idea that they no longer have a certain person, position, title, connection to power, etc. They end up succumbing to fear, doubts, and confusions of the heart.

The disciples went through serious emotional confusion when they heard that the Lord would leave them and return to the Father.

“Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.” John 13:33

Therefore, what is the vaccine against disturbances?

“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.” John 14:2

The Lord Jesus did not lie when He said that if we believed, we would heal the sick, cast out demons and would be baptised with the Holy Spirit. Why would He lie about our heavenly home, which is our eternal salvation?

“But he [Stephen], being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God…” Acts 7:55

Stephen was stoned to death, but he was not looking at the stones. He was looking to heaven. His eyes were fixed on his heavenly home, and not on his own life in this world. He valued what is eternal and despised what is temporary.

We must always use intelligent faith and think, “This situation that I am going through, the thing that I am losing, is nothing compared to my heavenly home that Jesus has prepared for me.” That was the faith that Stephen had.

Let’s believe!