Thoughts for another day

May 14, 2014.

Today's verse:  Col. 3:1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (KJV)

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

In the world we live move, it’s quite easy to become like anyone in the world.  It’s easy to live like other people who have no need for God and who’ll not even believe when you tell them there’s a God and He loves you.  Now this also applies to the idol worshippers and others who don’t believe in the One True God for their notions don’t prevent them from mingling with the crowd so to say and absorbing their customs and their ways.  For these people, everything is okay and hunky dory till some major problem comes along and shatters their life.  Then they run helter-skelter and are too confounded as to where to go for everywhere they go the door is closed and there’s no respite at all.  Since they’ve also not looked at the LORD God Almighty as their God they now don’t even know how to look at Him for how can you look at Some One you never knew? 

Are we too like this?  Believe me when I say, we are, for most of us Christians don’t even know our God, leave alone trust Him to work in our favor; but if we do that, He will do a great work for us. Today I received a mail from a friend who is to visit two countries in his current holiday trip.  He got the visa for one country where he is right now, but the visa for the other country was refused and he had to start the process all over again.  Now there was no time to give the passport for the visa stamp and this friend also had booked non-refundable air tickets in advance and the host people in the other country were looking forward to his visit; and the visa not being granted was something they never imagined happening.  Now what to do?  He requested all his friends to pray and pray they did, hammering at our heavenly Father’s heart.  His mail tells me he has obtained what is called an ‘e-visa’, one issued only in extraordinary circumstances.  Although not stamped in the passport, all he needs to do is take an output of the letter from the Immigration received by him and they can walk into the country, which just a few days earlier, they thought they would never go to!

My friend, such is our God.  His work makes you feel like some kind of dignitary just as I am sure my friend will feel when he goes to the immigration of that country and they will treat him very well because he has an e-visa!  And I must tell you that if God did that for him, He will do it for you and me too.  Just trust Him as my friend trusted and all will be well.  God will exalt you and raise you above the nations so all who see you lifted will be impressed.  And I must tell you that in your travail; lift your eyes above to Christ and don’t fall into the trap below.  Then His miraculous light will shine on you.  Amen.