In Number 13 and 14 we read that the people of God came to the very edge of the promise of God. There they stood ready to grasp the blessing He had promised them. Then, they discovered something. Giants stood in their way. They questioned, they shook with fear, and they wept and decided to turn back. Why? They believed that the giants were bigger than God.
What about us? We follow God’s direction. We have walked through some hard times. We know that he has promised us a blessing. THEN – GIANTS!
What will we do? How will we react? Faith is refusing to grumble against God because there are giants in the place he is leading you to. When faced with a problem will we lose faith in God? Or will we see the obstacle as an opportunity?
The miracles of God can take place when we run out of our own abilities. The miracles of God occur in the situations that we cannot handle. The miracles of God take place when we are faced with our own frailties. God often leads us to places where there are giants to show us how awesome and great our God really is.
The miracles happen when we step out of the safety of our boat to walk in the storm with Jesus. They happen when we bring our five loaves and two fish to a multitude. Miracles occur when we can do nothing but cry out, “Lord, Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me!” Miracles occur when the brother has died and Jesus is late arriving. Miracles occur when He has been in the grave three days.
What giants are you facing? What weaknesses are you discovering? What miracle is God waiting to show you in the midst of it all
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Deceitful Hearts
Jeremiah tells us : “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” NIV (Jeremiah 17:9)
How many times do we struggle with our hearts? There are things that clutter them—life’s hurts and pains; people’s opinions of us; and even our own thoughts about ourselves. Our hearts seem to be tossed whichever way the wind is blowing at the time.
God’s heart resides within those who are followers of Jesus. His heart is steady and true. When we attempt to “listen” to his heart we discover that these emotions and habits of our hearts can block out the voice of God’s heart within us. There is so much “”noise” in our hearts. We must learn how to tune it out so that we can tune into God’s heart.
God seeks to teach us all to listen. One day I sat on a hill and God spoke to my heart and said, “Listen.” I heard several different birds, a squirrel running though dry leaves, a cricket, a frog, a jet and some people talking. I had tuned out the “noise” of my heart and tuned into God’s world. God told me that I can do this anytime I decide to. I can also tune into his heart anytime. I can learn to tune out all the clutter of my heart and tune into God’s heart that is in the midst of the clutter.
We need to ask God to forgive us for “tuning” into people, life’s pains and our own concepts of us and forgetting that our hearts are deceitful. We must not take anything or anyone, including our selves, more seriously than Jesus!
I wonder what would happen if we took God seriously, tuned out the noise of our hearts and tuned into His?
How many times do we struggle with our hearts? There are things that clutter them—life’s hurts and pains; people’s opinions of us; and even our own thoughts about ourselves. Our hearts seem to be tossed whichever way the wind is blowing at the time.
God’s heart resides within those who are followers of Jesus. His heart is steady and true. When we attempt to “listen” to his heart we discover that these emotions and habits of our hearts can block out the voice of God’s heart within us. There is so much “”noise” in our hearts. We must learn how to tune it out so that we can tune into God’s heart.
God seeks to teach us all to listen. One day I sat on a hill and God spoke to my heart and said, “Listen.” I heard several different birds, a squirrel running though dry leaves, a cricket, a frog, a jet and some people talking. I had tuned out the “noise” of my heart and tuned into God’s world. God told me that I can do this anytime I decide to. I can also tune into his heart anytime. I can learn to tune out all the clutter of my heart and tune into God’s heart that is in the midst of the clutter.
We need to ask God to forgive us for “tuning” into people, life’s pains and our own concepts of us and forgetting that our hearts are deceitful. We must not take anything or anyone, including our selves, more seriously than Jesus!
I wonder what would happen if we took God seriously, tuned out the noise of our hearts and tuned into His?
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