Wednesday 20 June 2012

WHICH VIEW?


READ: PSLAM 103:6-8
When you give your life to Christ, you become a new creation. Then, depending on certain factors, you begin to see things in certain ways. “He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.” (Psalm 103:7). Your distance from an object will determine how clearly and accurately you see that object. You can only know God when you are close to Him. When you walk with God, there is a choice you have to make: whether you want to know his ways or his acts. The choice  you make will determine the kind and quality of sacrifice you make and the price you will be required to pay.
The children of Israel in the wilderness were content to see God’s miracles and signs. They were fine as long as the Red Sea opened for them to cross; manna fell from heaven for 40 years and the bitter waters became sweet at Marah. On one occasion, God invited the elders and nobles to climb a little way up the mountain and celebrate the progress they had made (Exodus 24). “Then the LORD said Moses, ‘Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tables of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.’” (Verse 12).
Moses went up and kept going, to where God was on Mt Sinai. As long as you remain complacent, you will never amount to anyone special before God. If you do not thirst after God and continue to remain in his presence, all you will see will be outcomes. Moses saw God’s ways. He went up to God and tarried there in the midst of fire, forty days and forty nights. He was at the place where the miracle was being forged. He saw God in action. He discussed with God intimately – face to face. No wonder, when he came down the mountain, every problem he met became a testimony.
You, too, can be in the place where the miracle is being wrought. You should not remain an onlooker. Do not be satisfied with your current level. You can go higher. Move upwards from now. Ask God to show you his ways and tell him you are not satisfied with just seeing his acts. The higher you can climb, the more secrets will be revealed to you.
MEMORIZE: PSALM 103:7 –He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel.