So much of our fear today seems to baseline as a fear of the "unknown". So much chaos and lawlessness has rocked our world lately and we wonder what's coming next or how will this end?
Suspicion abounds when we cannot openly talk about where we stand or what we think or find others who sees things the way that we do in a shared value sense?
It's days and times like these when our relationship with our Lord is so critical in figuring out God's perspective over our lives and circumstances. Our peace depends on it. Our decisions and next move depends on it, yet this is where so many of us falter in our trust because we don't really take the time to truly KNOW God apart from the weekly sermons we get off our satellite connections.
A little information regarding the character of our God is better than none but the mystery of His Majesty awaits our determined seeking for the hidden treasure of His being.
This morning I wake up with thoughts about the protests, the violence on the streets and the enemy off our ordered society on the move robbing, destroying property and killing innocent people. But then.........
The Holy Spirit whispers into my troubled thoughts:
"Remember My precedents!"
The history of man's days upon the earth are recorded for us to read in God's Word and are for the teaching and training of those who seek Him. The Bible is God's love letter to us and it contains therein His will and His ways over all of human history. First comes His relationship with individuals as Adam and Eve, the first of creation made in His image. Then comes His relationship with a nation called Israel. And then comes His relationship with redeemed human individuals, who have put their trust in Jesus, the One God sent to earth to save humanity from the judgment of His Holiness for the rebellion of our flesh through free will choices.
In God's Word we get truth and glimpses of how our Sovereign God acts and enacts His great power over all He created. We have the privilege and by the Holy Spirit the wisdom to understand the character of our God and in relationship we can experience His love.
In His love, I come to realize that God acts in repetition. Cycles of repeated lessons until we get His point and change what is out of His Divine order in our lives. These cycles reveal details about His character that He wants us to learn so that according to His Divine purpose, we can model and represent Him to others in our world.
When I read His word, I want to grasp modern day applications from ancient truth, since there is nothing new under the sun that has not been done or faced by humanity since the very beginning of time.
The way God acted in the past is the way He will act in every today and the way He will act tomorrow if we live another day on earth.
Th study of His Word is more than mere lessons in history, it is the study of the Majesty and mystery of our Creator God. Seeing how He intervened in the past gives us a firm baseline in our prayers and petitions for Him to intervene in our life and circumstances today.
Not only are His promises trustworthy for those who believe on His Name but so are His ways of directing our lives reliable and always in our temporal and eternal best interests.
Today I look back to His ways of dealing with troubling times for Israel to see what precedent He set in mighty acts of Divine intervention that we can draw from today. My peace is restored as I look for and find reminders of His Sovereign control, seek for His perspective and pray for His perfect Will.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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