Sunday, August 13, 2006
3:11 pm
The Lord works wonderfully.
You know the feeling you get when you are working for God. And yet, things don't seem to go right. When people don't respond. When you work and you pray and you get little results. Its all very well to say that we do the watering and planting, and God is the one who makes the seed grow. Thing is, its discouraging not to see any growth. And I wonder why. Afterall, God loves these people far more than I love them.
So, somehow, I did not go for Saturday Service yesterday. And I went for today's service. And somehow, Pastor Mark spoke about disappointments during serving. And somehow, there was an answer in the message. Read Matthew 8:18-22. Who is more qualified than the teacher of the Law? Yet, Jesus sort of discouraged him, because he had not counted the cost enough. Read Exodus 15:22-27. Doesn't that sound like disappointments? That even after God had shown himself to be mighty (Red Sea experience), we meet up with problems. Just 3 days later, there was no water. And when they reached Marah, the water was bitter. How would Moses feel? Moses who had been leading the people, Moses whom the people grumbled against. How? Why on earth did the Lord bring his people to Marah.
And it is here that the Lord spoke. For it is to test your Faithfulness. When things don't seem to be going right, what then? What can we say? And the Lord says, I have prepared Elim for you. Carry on. Be faithful, and you will see the fullness of the Lord.
Isn't the Lord nice to give me an answer? How wonderful is our God.
PS: Praying for 15 minutes is difficult.
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