“May the Lord look on you with favor and give you peace” (Numbers 6:26).
Maziga couldn’t help but observe something different about her condition in life. For almost every school event she seemed to be the least favoured. Techer after another would instinctively spank her for the least offense. She was never picked for any class position. Her name was always read last.
Well, all this cold treatment had a negative reaction on her. Feeling unfavored, Maziga resolved to wear a hard and combative face, after all, no one ever saw any good in her. She greeted every new relation with a sneer. Yet this combativeness only worsened matters. People kept far away from Maziga, never easily drawn to offer her any favors, since she wasn’t a likeable person.
It was though different for her buddy, Mulungi. At school she was always picked for the best positions. When she failed at anything the teachers were most eager to give her a helping hand. Mulungi seemed “everyone’s favorite!”
This train of events continued even after school. When Maziga started looking for a job, door after door would be slammed right in her face! It was different with Mulungi. She had to choose between multiple job offers. And once employed she quickly won promotion. When Maziga started a bakery her goods went unsold, and she quickly shut down her first and only business venture.
The situation we are observing here is as a common as sunrise; one person so unfavored, while another the rains are always falling on her side.
The Bible has a host of characters who were favored. When a young orphaned girl called Esther was brought to King Xerxes’s court before an official- “She pleased him and won his favor” ( Esther 2:9). It is said, “Esther won the favor of everyone who saw” ( vv 15), and would be eventually installed as Queen.
For Mary, “The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you” ( Luke 1:28). She became the mother of Jesus. When Daniel and his companions was brought into King Nebuchadunezzar’s court, “God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel” (Daniel 1:9). Later, the king “found none equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s service” ( vv 19)!
Every child of God has received favor to be born into His Kingdom, which comes by grace! The work of the enemy Satan is to frustrate this favor from the children of God, deny them opportunities, hinder their progress and turn them away from God. But by praying “without ceasing” God blesses His children with favor that “opens all doors!”
Prayer today: Lord father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, to you who has favored me to be born into your kingdom, I pray for that favor to crown my life against all the enemy’s plan, that you may glorify yourself through in me, this I pray in Jesus’s name.
