THE CAUSE OF ALL THINGS

May 6

Psalms 119:145 I cried with my whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.

Here is a principle that we have largely forgotten in today’s society. With very few exceptions, the Word teaches us that distresses, problems, tragedies, and even persecutions come from God, that they are to teach us lessons, to work His will in our lives, and bring our strayed hearts back to Him. Job’s comforters tried to convict Job of sin. Even the pagan sailors in Jonah’s ship wanted everyone on board to make things right with their god. Jesus’ disciples wondered if the healed man had been blind because of his own sins, or those of his parents.

There should never be a question as to whether we have sinned or not. The Bible said that we have all sinned (Romans 3:23). If we have a hard time finding faults in ourselves, we can enroll the help of those closest to us such as our spouse, or teenage children, our closest co-workers--they will be glad to tell us When tragedy hits as a person, a society, a country, it is a time for heart-searching and to desperately cry to the Lord. It is a time for repentance, and to determine to keep God’s command. It is a time to re-evaluate our modus operandi; to yield to the changes God brings in our life. It is certainly not a time for justification, arguing and arranging with God. It is a time of learning by listening to the instruction that He has for us with a sincere and honest heart (Luke 8:15).

No matter who’s right or wrong, no matter what the physical elements of the situation are, the spiritual principle remains the same: all things come to us for the purpose of bringing us close to Him.

Today in our desperation, let us cry with a whole heart;. Let us be desperate to learn, and promise to keep His statutes.

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: