“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!
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02/05/2024 - 03/05/2024 All day“That is why for Christ’s sake I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor 12:10)
We all crave to be blessed in life. But was there a believer who was so blessed beyond any circumstances without experiencing some sort of discomfort, in one way or another! A person may apparently be blessed in every single way yet have one troubling matter that constantly drives him down to his knees.
The one mightily blessed with riches may have a family situation that leaves him ever on edge. Someone who seems to be at the height of his profession may be living with an ailment that keeps him ever on tentacles. The one blessed with abundant health might from time to time be dealing with financial woes.
Why do such troubling situations plague even believers? One explanation could be found in the Apostle Paul’s life. Called into ministry and endowed with many gifts, including amazing revelations from above, yet he had a matter that constantly drove him on his knees. “Therefore in order to keep me from being conceited, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan, to torment me” (2 Cor 12: 7).
Paul would often cry out to God to free him of this particularly troubling matter. But the Lord came back with, “My grace is sufficient for you. For my power is made perfect in your weakness” (2 Cor 12: 9).
The comfort of this lesson is that God is completely aware of whatever might be ever troubling us. Moreover, it could be purposely there, that we constantly place our faith in Him, other than relying on our strength and resources, especially as He blesses us in other uplifting ways.
Prayer for today: Lord Father in heaven, today I pray that whatever matter is constantly troubling me, I know it is for a purpose and you are in total control, to bless me even more, this I pray in Jesus’ name.
