Ok, This is a message that’s been in coming – the day I watched 2012 my head was filled with all these thoughts that I had to pen it down.
I was thinking about the Lord’s coming and I got a question in my head – “What had I done for the glory of the Lord?” – Nada,nil,nothing – and I was so ashamed that I had not done anything, not even shared with anyone about Jesus Christ.
Suddenly I thought about why people get spooked at the idea of 2012 and the world ending and all and the answer was simply – they were afraid of losing their life and belongings on this world. I mean why else? Then I got to thinking about how sometimes I think that I’d be blessed to die the natural way old age since I would have time to settle things with God and accept leaving it all behind. But when I think of this, looks like it’s my shortcut to going to heaven – it’s like at that point I wont have anything more to desire of life so I would be close to God. But that’s not right!!
God deserves to have me being faithful at my good age – He deserves to have me do works in His name in health and not necessarily when I’m too old to even stand up straight.
Sometimes I wonder if God wants us to sacrifice our job, wealth, family for Him but I realized that He doesn’t want to take it away. I believe He simply wants to know that if we had to give it up, we would. We’re blessed that our God is a generous, loving God – all he wants is our sincere love and faithfulness.
Think back to Abraham – A father who had his awaited child Isaac at the age of 99. And one day God asks him to sacrifice that very son. I can only imagine the struggle Abraham would have had with his own self. On one hand, he knows he has to obey God and on the other hand he has to give up his son. But eventually he decided to be faithful to God even if it meant losing the most important thing in his life. I can picture Abraham as he climbed the mountain – I’m sure every step he took to get closer to the top would have been getting heavier and heavier but he kept on going. I believe we can call his steps the Faith Walk. Then as we read, just as Abraham was about to sacrifice his son, God commands him to stop and he sees the ram Lord prepared for sacrifice.
We all have times of this faith walk – where the going gets tough, we know we have to keep walking, sometimes with no idea of what’s going to happen and if it is going for the good but we have to keep walking. For me this has been a struggle because I always seem to worry about it. I’m praying that the Lord gives me His peace that I learn to walk the Faith Walk with no fear. After all, He is Jehovah Jireh. The Lord who guided the ram up the mountain at the same time that Abraham and Isaac were climbing on the opposite side will prepare for me the ways that I do not see.
Amen!
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