Thoughts for another day

May 7, 2008

Today's verse: Dan. 9:4. And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; (KJV)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Many ask – what is that thing which can please the Lord? How would you answer this? If you ask me, well, there are many things that please the Lord and one of them is making a humble submission to Him. See, before the Lord humility stands tall.

If you read a little before this verse at Daniel, who mouths the Words of the above verse, we see him pleading earnestly coupled with fasting and wearing of sackcloth. These signs are signs of a beaten soul, humbled by the circumstances. Therefore, Daniel makes this prayer in humility and he sees the fruit of it, when Gabriel, the angel makes a visitation to him.

If there is one thing of attitude the Lord loves most in us His children, it is the spirit of humility. It doesn’t mean you grovel and crouch before everyone. It only means you accept all that comes to you in a spirit of submission to the will of the Lord, for nothing comes to you apart from His will. Besides, before men, you do not criticize or think yourself to be ‘big’ but adopt a spirit of ‘smallness’, if I may use the word, and learn to go with humans. You see, when God watches you, He sees your spirit of submission and lack of pride and He exalts you, just the way Jesus recommends that when we go for a wedding, we take a lower place to be then upgraded by the host to a higher one.

The above doesn’t mean you don’t question the wrong that’s happening to you. Take Jesus for instance, He did question things and He was pretty blunt at times too but that was not to display His superior powers or wisdom, it was so that the situation could be a right situation, where the wrong was indicted and condemned. This kind of attitude will be difficult for most of us to adopt, but then slowly but surely with His Grace it is possible to change and only then we will see the Hand of our merciful and covenant keeping God in our lives.