“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me…” ( John 10:4).
Have you ever had a challenging matter and needed someone to share with! Of course for any thing personal you would only feel comfortable to share with one you have a personal relationship. The reason might range from confidentiality, empathy and time. You don’t just pull out a stranger to bear out your heartaches seeking for a solution.
And this is where our God comes in!
When Moses was faced with a situation where God was about to obliterate the people he was leading for their rebellion, he pleaded with him as with an intimate friend. “I have seen these people,” the Lord said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation” ( Exodus 32:9-10). To this Moses fell on his face and cried, “Lord,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?” ( vv 11). “Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever” (vv 13). And, because of these pleas, “Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened” ( vv 14).
All this is because Moses had a personal relationship with God! Jesus too had a personal relationship with his Father. This is why he took time in prayer talking to God through the night of Gethsemane.
Like Moses, and Christ, ours should be a personal relationship with our creator, the loving God. It means it is him we should run to when weighed down with whatever challenge, pleading for his ear, and direct intervention in what might seem a lost cause!
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, to you I come as a Father to a loving child, and bear out all my heart to you, because you listen and care for me, and I wait upon you, all this I pray in Jesus’s name!
