March 4, 2006
Psa 119:74 KJV They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
The person who fears God rejoices when they see another God-fearing person who has been blessed by God, one who has been able to surmount untold difficulties by the sheer help of the grace of God. It stands to them as a firm reminder that this very same grace is available also for them.
Is your life a living testament of the grace and bounty of God? Can it be used to showcase His abundant mercies so that these that fear (respect) Him will rejoice?
But you say, “If God wants my life to witness His abundant mercies, it is in up to Him to ensure that people can tangibly see and feel them. He needs to answer my prayers by healing me, feeding me and making sure that my children are safe”. Somehow Jesus knows that that just won’t do the trick. He knows that He can feed us with miraculous food, heal our diseases and that of our children, even resurrect the dead, and still, we will not be won to His mercies. Some went as far as even accusing Jesus of blasphemy, saying that God’s care of them was through Baalzubub as in the case of the blind and dumb devil-possessed one (Mat 12:24-34). Even in the Garden of Eden, a place where mankind was miraculously supplied for with not a worry in the world, man did not acknowledge God’s mercy and preferred the fruits of his own ways. The same thing happened with the Children of Israel in the desert between Egypt and Canaan: whereas God fed them with heavenly manna and quenched their thirst with water from a rock, still they doubted and preferred the bread of slavery.
God’s mercy is not that He doesn’t allow trials and tribulations to come unto us, but in that He is ever so present with us when they happen. It is the ungodly who have their eyes on the corrupt temporal elements of the world, who equates God’s mercies with wealth comfort and security. The Godly man who fears (respects) God rejoices as he sees the grace of God give him the strength to trust beyond reason, to believe beyond the possible and to endure beyond measure, all the while projecting an unshakable faith in the omnipotence of the God that lives within the confines of his heart.
May God help us, by our attitude of faith to provoke rejoicing in our spiritual kindred.
1Pe 2:12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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