Psalm
33:11, "The counsel of the Lord....
all generations." I am sure we all
have prayed that God would speak to our hearts. We may be surprised at the things that He
would speak. I was thinking of John on
the isle of Patmos. He was far from God's people in body, but in spirit he had
made a big effort to be near to God. He
was given the responsibility to give a message to God's people. In Daniel when the three were in the furnace,
the Son of God walked amongst them. I
wonder if John wondered if the people would understand what God was speaking. We may be surprised at what God will speak. He wants to waken us. He wants to search us, to help us, to speak
peace to us. He that will hear let him
hear. To have an ear that is not tuned
to what is of a man but to hear what God would say. I wonder if some of those Churches were
surprised at what they heard or were they wakened. They were happy with wrong doctrine but God
was not. To Him it was unacceptable. I enjoyed what we heard about Daniel. I was thinking about God's work in our hearts. It brings a joy deep down in our hearts and brings us into a wonderful fellowship, the fellowship of the Father and the Son. Daniel and his friends were in a predicament and one would feel that they could do nothing about it. Daniel wasn't afraid to tell what was in his heart. He had a true reverence and fear of God. We want God to search us and to help us. I thought of the vision that Jacob got of God. He was shown the help of Heaven. He seemed to have a yearning to be in the testimony that Abraham and his father Isaac experienced. God gave him a very clear understanding of His desire for Jacob and what Jacob could be. He had many temptations and trials but he proved the promises of God to be very real. When Laban changed towards Him, God told him to return to Bethel. His wives had seen what was in his life and they agreed to go. May God help us to be quiet in His presence, to keep our confidence in Him firm unto the end. When we don't know what to do, we can remember all the help that comes from above. |