READ: ACTS
8:5-8, 26-39
“For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9).
Being a disciplined follower of Jesus Christ requires realising that the One you are following knows much better than you do, and it is his programme that you are following.
In Acts 8:5-8, 26-39, God stopped a citywide crusade just to attend to one Ethiopian eunuch in the desert. Philip may have wondered, ‘Why this break?’ and about the rationale behind the decision; but he had learned to trust and obey the Lord absolutely. By that act of obedience, the eunuch was saved and took the gospel to the continent of Africa. God simply stopped the crusade to bring life to a continent!
As a follower of Jesus Christ, how long does it take you to obey what God tells you to do? How well have you obeyed the instruction to ‘bring you all the tithes into my store house’? Are you still battling with it? Are you still harbouring the Canaanites such as anger, unforgiveness, bitterness and evil thoughts, in your life? If you have not yet obeyed, when will you ever obey?
Instant obedience is required of a disciplined follower. God expects you to drop whatever you may be doing to answer his call. Hebrews 2:9-10, 14-15 shows that it is bitter for a wise general to lose a battle in order to win a war. One is bigger than the other. It is better to offend your wife or father or mother or even yourself in order to please God, than the order way round. If you offend man, God will help you to reconcile with him but if you offend God, which man can help you settle the quarrel?
Being a disciplined follower of Jesus Christ requires realising that the One you are following knows much better than you do, and it is his programme that you are following.
In Acts 8:5-8, 26-39, God stopped a citywide crusade just to attend to one Ethiopian eunuch in the desert. Philip may have wondered, ‘Why this break?’ and about the rationale behind the decision; but he had learned to trust and obey the Lord absolutely. By that act of obedience, the eunuch was saved and took the gospel to the continent of Africa. God simply stopped the crusade to bring life to a continent!
As a follower of Jesus Christ, how long does it take you to obey what God tells you to do? How well have you obeyed the instruction to ‘bring you all the tithes into my store house’? Are you still battling with it? Are you still harbouring the Canaanites such as anger, unforgiveness, bitterness and evil thoughts, in your life? If you have not yet obeyed, when will you ever obey?
Instant obedience is required of a disciplined follower. God expects you to drop whatever you may be doing to answer his call. Hebrews 2:9-10, 14-15 shows that it is bitter for a wise general to lose a battle in order to win a war. One is bigger than the other. It is better to offend your wife or father or mother or even yourself in order to please God, than the order way round. If you offend man, God will help you to reconcile with him but if you offend God, which man can help you settle the quarrel?
MEMORIZE:
ISAIAH 55:8-9 –For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
