READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 2:12-16
“And He said, Take now your son, your only son
Isaac, whom you love, and get you into the land of Moriah; and offer him there
for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell you of” (Genesis 22:2).
In Genesis 22:1-3 God gave Abraham three commandments –take your only son Isaac, go to the land of Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice. Why ‘only’ son? What of Ishmael the first born? As far as God was concerned, Abraham had only one son. The other was bastard. Why did God ask Abraham to embark on your journey of three days before arriving at Moriah where he would sacrifice his son? It was to afford him enough time to change his mind.
If you obey God completely, no matter how foolish His commandments may appear, He will bless you beyond your imagination. If you are to assess certain things God may ask you to do, you will end up not doing them because they may not seem rational. Whether the act is wise or foolish is not the issue, it is your obedience however, that will trigger the blessing. The story was told of a brother in America who was praying and really looking up to God to prosper him. The Lord told him to go about gathering used tyres. This sounded absurd to him because there was much affluence around to the point that over a little problem, car tyres were dumped virtually everywhere. In fact, some peoplewould not mind paying you to collect their used tyres as these were constituting a nuisance.
The brother trusted God and started gathering all the tyres littered all over the place. After that, a wind of scarcity of tyres blew that turned this scavenger into a tyre merchant. People were now willing to pay for the same tyres he had collected free. In the process, the brother became a millionaire. God has asked me to do certain things any sensible mind would consider foolish. But as I obeyed, the blessings followed. As a child of God, tell Him what you want but leave Him to decide the how. Many of us worry about the how to appoint that we do not have faith to ask for the blessing. Has God asked you to do something foolish? Go ahead as long as you are sure it is God. His foolishness is wiser than man’s wisdom.
In Genesis 22:1-3 God gave Abraham three commandments –take your only son Isaac, go to the land of Moriah and offer him as a sacrifice. Why ‘only’ son? What of Ishmael the first born? As far as God was concerned, Abraham had only one son. The other was bastard. Why did God ask Abraham to embark on your journey of three days before arriving at Moriah where he would sacrifice his son? It was to afford him enough time to change his mind.
If you obey God completely, no matter how foolish His commandments may appear, He will bless you beyond your imagination. If you are to assess certain things God may ask you to do, you will end up not doing them because they may not seem rational. Whether the act is wise or foolish is not the issue, it is your obedience however, that will trigger the blessing. The story was told of a brother in America who was praying and really looking up to God to prosper him. The Lord told him to go about gathering used tyres. This sounded absurd to him because there was much affluence around to the point that over a little problem, car tyres were dumped virtually everywhere. In fact, some peoplewould not mind paying you to collect their used tyres as these were constituting a nuisance.
The brother trusted God and started gathering all the tyres littered all over the place. After that, a wind of scarcity of tyres blew that turned this scavenger into a tyre merchant. People were now willing to pay for the same tyres he had collected free. In the process, the brother became a millionaire. God has asked me to do certain things any sensible mind would consider foolish. But as I obeyed, the blessings followed. As a child of God, tell Him what you want but leave Him to decide the how. Many of us worry about the how to appoint that we do not have faith to ask for the blessing. Has God asked you to do something foolish? Go ahead as long as you are sure it is God. His foolishness is wiser than man’s wisdom.
MEMORIZE: 1
CORINTHIANS 2:14 “But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of
God: for they are foolishness to him; neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
