Text:
Heb.6:15NLT.
Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
The pot gradually and steadily runs out of oil even as the bank account is already in the red. The clock ticks dutifully, drawing closer the children's school resumption after the the vacation which you wished may never come to an end. The more you wish the hand of the clock could be stayed, the more it seems to be moving at a jet speed, still drawing to your attention your responsibilities as a faithful father and a virtuous woman. But alas! God seems not to be responding in parallel to your own speed. Wait! Be Patient, Be Still, seems to be what you keep hearing.
Oftentimes, God keeps us waiting, even in the face of the realities of famine, face to face with a ravaging terror. Then, we ask, 'Is the time not yet ripe for the heaven to release the dew? Have we not wondered enough to get to our destination point?
The Psalmist found himself in the maze of this paradigm and when tabling his matter to God, he asked, 'Lord, how long wilt thou look on?— Psalm 35:17. But then, when he pulled himself together, he remembered that, 'the way of man is, really, not in himself... Jeremiah 10:23 and counseled his own soul to 'Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.'
His waiting was never in vain; for the promises of God in Christ Jesus are 'Yea and Amen.' In a process of time, to his astonishment and amazement, he exclaimed, "I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry." Beyond the expected Dew, there was a Great Shower.
The entire Jews, at a time, also expressed such extravagant joy, 'When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad-- Psalm 126:1-3 KJV.
Yes, such change is always greeted with great excitement, it erases all past trauma, it dries away tears as it puts songs in the mouth and melodies in the heart, but then, are we ready to wait? Can we pay the prize of waiting, can we bear the ridicule, face the humiliation, the despise? Can we bear the cost of being deserted and be ready to contend with the few friends who will, rather be judgmental than proffering solutions as in the case of Job? Will you be ready to tolerate your wife who will rather advertise your plight than being there for you at such a time?
The scripture affirms that, '...no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby."—Heb. 12:11. KJV.
God never keeps us waiting without hope, without His presence and without sustaining us as He stands by His Word that He 'is faithful, and will not suffer us to be tempted above what we will be able to bear-1 Cor.10:13 KJV The psalmist from his own personal experience counsels, 'Wait on the Lord : be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
HE MAKES ALL THINGS BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME!
Remain Blessed!
Tuesday, 22 March 2016
FINDING HOPE IN THE 'HOPELESS SITUATION'
Text:
Heb.6:15NLT.
Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
The pot gradually and steadily runs out of oil even as the bank account is already in the red. The clock ticks dutifully, drawing closer the children's school resumption after the the vacation which you wished may never come to an end. The more you wish the hand of the clock could be stayed, the more it seems to be moving at a jet speed, still drawing to your attention your responsibilities as a faithful father and a virtuous woman. But alas! God seems not to be responding in parallel to your own speed. Wait! Be Patient, Be Still, seems to be what you keep hearing.
Oftentimes, God keeps us waiting, even in the face of the realities of famine, face to face with a ravaging terror. Then, we ask, 'Is the time not yet ripe for the heaven to release the dew? Have we not wondered enough to get to our destination point?
Heb.6:15NLT.
Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised.
The pot gradually and steadily runs out of oil even as the bank account is already in the red. The clock ticks dutifully, drawing closer the children's school resumption after the the vacation which you wished may never come to an end. The more you wish the hand of the clock could be stayed, the more it seems to be moving at a jet speed, still drawing to your attention your responsibilities as a faithful father and a virtuous woman. But alas! God seems not to be responding in parallel to your own speed. Wait! Be Patient, Be Still, seems to be what you keep hearing.
Oftentimes, God keeps us waiting, even in the face of the realities of famine, face to face with a ravaging terror. Then, we ask, 'Is the time not yet ripe for the heaven to release the dew? Have we not wondered enough to get to our destination point?
Sunday, 13 March 2016
THE VANITY OF LIFE
Psalm 90:12 KJV
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Some years ago during the public presentation of my first book, IT IS WELL, I had the opportunity to discuss some family matters with one of my brothers. I expressed my worries about some sort of contention in the family as we are of polygamous background. Along the line, I said we can salvage the situation only if we all remember that this world is not our abiding place even as most of us have spent at least half of the years that we may ever live here on earth.
At that juncture, he cut in and said, 'No, no, no. I've not! I've not! He was then in his mid forties. That's the attitude of Man when it comes to the issue of life and death. Some of us believe here is our abiding place, we never give it a thought that we can be called home at whatever stage of our life by the owner of this life and that, also, informed the reason why man has successfully prepared for every other thing except death. Lord teach us to number our days.
Little wonder evil has also continued to be on the increase just because we have so much fixed our heart here on earth since it is where we have laid our treasure and have therefore forgotten that life is, 'even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.'(James 4:14 KJV).
A woman's daughter had some misunderstanding with a member of our local church and as soon as the woman got the information while on admission in a hospital, she beat her chest and vowed she will show that brother whom she is the moment she leaves the hospital. Her sickness was so minor that she never bothered about the possibility of not surviving it. She was already looking forward to returning home and showing her might to the teenager. But lo and behold, she died in the hospital and never returned to carry out her threat. Lord teach us to number our days.
A lot of people today believe they play the pipe and therefore the ones dictating the tune of the music. Because they were privileged to attain a certain position before others, they believed they hold both the Yam and the Knife and whosoever it pleases them or rather that dances to the tune of their music, they will cut out a piece for. They are never moved by the pains of their siblings, the nakedness of their immediate and distant relations, the trauma their neighbors are passing through. Their body language speaks only of Self, Self and Self. They have soon forgotten that, 'all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away( 1Pt.1:24). Lord teach us to number our days.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 KJV
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Remain blessed!
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Some years ago during the public presentation of my first book, IT IS WELL, I had the opportunity to discuss some family matters with one of my brothers. I expressed my worries about some sort of contention in the family as we are of polygamous background. Along the line, I said we can salvage the situation only if we all remember that this world is not our abiding place even as most of us have spent at least half of the years that we may ever live here on earth.
At that juncture, he cut in and said, 'No, no, no. I've not! I've not! He was then in his mid forties. That's the attitude of Man when it comes to the issue of life and death. Some of us believe here is our abiding place, we never give it a thought that we can be called home at whatever stage of our life by the owner of this life and that, also, informed the reason why man has successfully prepared for every other thing except death. Lord teach us to number our days.
Little wonder evil has also continued to be on the increase just because we have so much fixed our heart here on earth since it is where we have laid our treasure and have therefore forgotten that life is, 'even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.'(James 4:14 KJV).
A woman's daughter had some misunderstanding with a member of our local church and as soon as the woman got the information while on admission in a hospital, she beat her chest and vowed she will show that brother whom she is the moment she leaves the hospital. Her sickness was so minor that she never bothered about the possibility of not surviving it. She was already looking forward to returning home and showing her might to the teenager. But lo and behold, she died in the hospital and never returned to carry out her threat. Lord teach us to number our days.
A lot of people today believe they play the pipe and therefore the ones dictating the tune of the music. Because they were privileged to attain a certain position before others, they believed they hold both the Yam and the Knife and whosoever it pleases them or rather that dances to the tune of their music, they will cut out a piece for. They are never moved by the pains of their siblings, the nakedness of their immediate and distant relations, the trauma their neighbors are passing through. Their body language speaks only of Self, Self and Self. They have soon forgotten that, 'all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away( 1Pt.1:24). Lord teach us to number our days.
Ecclesiastes 11:8 KJV
But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
Remain blessed!
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