READ: LAMENTATIONS
3:21-24
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to
think anything as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God” (2 Corinthians 3:5).
When you make God your Shepherd, He becomes your sufficiency. It is wrong for anyone who claims to be a child of God to add something else to God. Some people do not think it is wrong for a Christians to visit witch doctors or fetish priests once in a while. Some have even asked me why we don’t give them holy water to drink in our church. The simple answer is that we have the name of Jesus. And Jesus said anything we ask us to combine His name with some other names. If you do so, you spoil your case. Some people believe when you combine the name of Jesus with Mary, together with the names of angels and crown it with the names of departed saints; you will hasten answers to prayers. If you do so, Jesus will totally move out of the scene and you will be left in pure idolatry.
In 1 Kings 19:7-8, instead of killing Elijah who requested to die, God sent an angel to feed him twice. Another lesson here is that the feeding of Elijah was an act of divine mercy. If God had not fed him, what would have happened? What would Elijah have done? Thank God for His mercy on your life.
“For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you; neither shall the covenant of My peace, says the LORD that has mercy on you” (Isaiah 54:10).
I am so thrilled by God’s steadfast mercy. Our reading says God’s compassion towards us never expires. Every morning God’s love and mercy towards you are renewed. The day He fails to do so, you are finished. It is His mercy that has brought us this far. Do you daily renew your love, and commitment to Him?
When you make God your Shepherd, He becomes your sufficiency. It is wrong for anyone who claims to be a child of God to add something else to God. Some people do not think it is wrong for a Christians to visit witch doctors or fetish priests once in a while. Some have even asked me why we don’t give them holy water to drink in our church. The simple answer is that we have the name of Jesus. And Jesus said anything we ask us to combine His name with some other names. If you do so, you spoil your case. Some people believe when you combine the name of Jesus with Mary, together with the names of angels and crown it with the names of departed saints; you will hasten answers to prayers. If you do so, Jesus will totally move out of the scene and you will be left in pure idolatry.
In 1 Kings 19:7-8, instead of killing Elijah who requested to die, God sent an angel to feed him twice. Another lesson here is that the feeding of Elijah was an act of divine mercy. If God had not fed him, what would have happened? What would Elijah have done? Thank God for His mercy on your life.
“For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My kindness shall not depart from you; neither shall the covenant of My peace, says the LORD that has mercy on you” (Isaiah 54:10).
I am so thrilled by God’s steadfast mercy. Our reading says God’s compassion towards us never expires. Every morning God’s love and mercy towards you are renewed. The day He fails to do so, you are finished. It is His mercy that has brought us this far. Do you daily renew your love, and commitment to Him?
MEMORIZE:
ISAIAH 54:10 – For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but My
kindness shall not depart from you; neither shall the covenant of My peace,
says the LORD that has mercy on you.
