Thoughts for another day

April 11, 2014.

Today's verse:  But that day the LORD thundered with loud thunder against the Philistines and threw them into such a panic that they were routed before the Israelites.  (KJV)

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

Every time there was grave danger to the Israelites and when someone among them stood right before God and prayed confidently to Him, perhaps even weeping at the atrocities committed upon them, God heard their prayer and rescued them with the power of His right hand.  Throughout the Bible we see how God enters the scene whenever there was any situation that stifled the Jews and someone among them stood up in right earnest and prayed.  We know how the Jews irked God and committed every kind of offense against Him, but He always forgot their wickedness and helped them.

I believe, God loves to help His children.  Deep within I know there’s not even one thing in me that would please God for all my life and all my activities and my words are aimed to bring me glory and not Him; yet, I also know that when I pray to Him in sincerity, forgetting me for those moments when I pray, then God re-focuses His attention on me.  Each time I think a particular situation is going to floor me, I look up at God and I am assured that He will help me stand.

You know, the divine affair we have with God, continues all our lives and He is never far from us.  We live as His people on earth and we’re expected to live by His ways.  Yet, often we live by our own ways, caring nothing for God’s dictates and His rules.  Each time this happens I’ve seen us fall miserably, but when I lift my voice and call unto God, He comes instantly and soothes my mind and calms my anxieties.  I know that God knows exactly what to do with my temperament and He works in His way to rid me of my problem and in accepting His way, I also get into the areas of His influence where He will thunder loudly against anything coming against me and destroy my enemies.  My mind is fully convinced that God is my Father and He is for me.