BREAD THAT LOOKS LIKE STONE

November 6

BREAD THAT LOOKS LIKE STONE

Psalms 34:1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

It is so easy to be God’s fair weather friend. It is so easy to praise and thank Him when everything goes well in our lives. Looking at our daily lives, can we really say with King David that we bless the Lord at all times and that his praise is continually in our mouth? Our Lord longs for us to know that when we ask Him for bread that He will not give us a stone, or that if we ask for a fish, He will not give us a snake. Very often God’s opportunities are disguised as difficulties that blind to God’s purpose. We curse the difficulty and bypass the open door of service, or miss the lesson in our life.

In the following statement, Isaiah, the messianic prophet, tells us of the qualities of our Lord. He says, He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness shall He judge the poor (Isaiah 11:3-4). Here we learn that the Lord doesn’t judge us by our physical frailties, appearances or poor expression, but that He judges us with the righteous judgment of the true motivation of our hearts. Should we learn from His gracious ways and do the same thing with Him? Should we give Him that same trust by believing that what looks like a stone or a snake in our lives, is actually the bread and the fish with which He fed the multitudes?

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.