Shall I hide from Abraham
what I am doing…? —Genesis 18:17
{CHAMBERS} “[…] friendship means being so intimately in touch with
God that you never even need to ask Him to show you His will. It is evidence of
a level of intimacy which confirms that you are nearing the final stage of your
discipline in the life of faith. When you have a right-standing relationship
with God, you have a life of freedom, liberty, and delight; you are God’s will.
And all of your commonsense decisions are actually His will for you, unless you
sense a feeling of restraint brought on by a check in your spirit. […] Why did Abraham stop praying when he did? He
stopped because he still was lacking the level of intimacy in his relationship
with God, which would enable him boldly to continue on with the Lord in prayer
until his desire was granted. Whenever we stop short of our true desire in
prayer and say, “Well, I don’t know, maybe this is not God’s will,” then we
still have another level to go. It shows that we are not as intimately
acquainted with God as Jesus was, and as Jesus would have us to be— “…that they
may be one just as We are one…” (John 17:22). […] “For your Father knows the
things you have need of before you ask Him” (Matthew 6:8). The reason for
asking is so you may get to know God better. “Delight yourself also in the
Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). We should
keep praying to get a perfect understanding of God Himself.”
{ELGIN} (John 6:38) “For
I [Jesus] have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of
him [the Father] who sent me.” Can you
say that about your life? Is doing God’s
will the thing that motivates you every day?
Or does life seem to always get in the way? Do you find it necessary to
come to church on Sunday morning to sense the presence of God? Is that the only time that you think about
your Father who is in heaven? I know
that is not true because you are reading this.
But it is true for many Christians.
Friend, we must encourage one another in the faith. Why? Because our tendency is to wander from it
.. to allow the world and its concerns to creep in and dominate our thinking
and doing. Is there someone that you can
encourage today? I don’t mean by sharing
something you read on Facebook without a word of explanation to all of your
friends … like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote “I shot an arrow into the air.
It fell to earth I know not where…..”
That is a little like my devotion, I don’t know who is going to read
this .. but I am referring to something that is more personal. Targeted at someone specific . .someone that
the Lord has laid on your heart. You
know who that is … why not text, call, write or visit them. Not to thump them with the Bible, but to
remind them of God’s great love for them.
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