Thoughts for another day

March 23, 2011

Today's verse: Nu. 10:9. And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)                                                                                    

Reading your Bible, have you noticed God telling His people to establish a certain 'form' so that when they use it, He will remember His promise based on that form and save them?  Take the institution of the Passover, God wanted them to spray the blood of the unblemished lamb on the doorposts so that He would pass over that house without killing the first-born.  Did He really need to see the blood to do that?

Take our Scripture, it says, when they blow an alarm with the trumpets, then He will remember them and protect them from their enemies.  I find it strange that a God so powerful and Omniscient would need us to do anything to remind Him!  The Bible in many places talks of the Lord remembering His covenant with Abraham; remembering other persons, etc.  Why does this happen?  I'm sure God is aware of all situations and all circumstances that we are beset with even things beyond our reach, both in the material and non-material world.  Then why does the Word say that God remembered?  

I know and believe that it's for us God speaks such language in His Word.  When I pray, I put my prayer in the context of a powerful and promise fulfilling God by calling Him – God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob.  God loves when we use symbols He gives us and instantly grants our prayer.  One among the many things we can use today is Jesus' promise, 'And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.'  I know at times, it's difficult to first believe and then see, but it's God's established way and in interpretation, it means He wants it to be done that way.  When things are done His way, He relents and works His mighty hand in our favor.  Just trust Him at His Word and in prayer, rely on symbols He's given by which we will be able to realize and appropriate His marvelous wonders in our lives.