We fail to recall how the job we hold is an answer to prayer, the roof over our head, the car we drive, the spouse we come home to. We forget about the healing we’ve prayed for, the wayward child who’s found God again, the doctor’s report that came back benign, the happenstance meeting that was truly divine appointment. How many times we do our love ones get back safe, despite deer and storms and drunk drivers? God answers prayers but we suffer soul amnesia.
Tag: faithfulness
Praise amidst persecution goes against our very nature, doesn’t it? We want to save our hooting and hollering until the end, when the win is secure, right? But remember, my friend, we aren’t praising God just for what He’s done, we are praising Him for who He is.
Noah and Joseph and Jesus teach us that the few are worthy of full effort. No small places, no small people. We never know who we might be raising up, where they may go, who they might become.
The psalmist points out the ongoing faithfulness and affection of our God. I think about the Israelites and the way we know God blew apart the waters on their behalf, but I also recall that God ‘remembered’ Noah and his family in the flood. Additionally, He ‘remembered’ Joseph in prison. Not that our heavenly Father ever misplaces us or goes on without us, but it seems at the appointed time, He remembers. He steps in and miracles happen.
Marriages fall short every day, but God steps in amidst our deficit and shows Himself faithful.
What is imposing and impressive to us is not challenging for God.
Sometimes God lets us lose a skirmish today so we can repossess the resolve to win at what’s most crucial.