Have ye not known? have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40:21-22 We read in Numbers 13 that the people of Israel didn’t initially enter the Promised Land because they felt like grasshoppers in the eyes of the people who lived there. Here, God is saying, “You might be grasshoppers in their sight, but they’re grasshoppers in My sight.” The same is still true. Whoever or whatever stands against you is as a grasshopper in God’s sight. Therefore, rather than worrying, believe that your Father loves you and will see you through. “I have a hard time believing that,” you say. “Maybe it’s because I’m not praying right.” I think of the little girl who came to her father and said, “Daddy, would you please put gasoline on my lips?” “Sure, honey,” the father said as he went into the bathroom, opened the medicine cabinet, and pulled the Vaseline off her shelf. Yes, the little girl got her words mixed up, but did her father say, “You want gasoline on your lips? Then gasoline is what you’re getting”? Of course not! He’s her father. He knew what she meant. “If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, don’t you know that the Heavenly Father will give good gifts to His?” Jesus asked (see Matthew 7:11). Listen, dear folks, your vocabulary might be all mixed up. You might not pray with eloquence, but your Father knows what’s in your heart. And even if you get it all jumbled up, He’s not going to say, “Gasoline, huh? Gasoline it is!” Jon Courson
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 23:45:38 +0000
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