Tuesday, 5th August 2014 Imagine you have someone telling you to just call on him and he will give you whatever you want. What will be the first thing in your mind? Whatever it is, isnt that great to receive what your heart is wanting? Be careful what you wish for... for the hearts of men are deceitful and full of flesh. In todays verse, The Lord, our Lord is telling you and me... to commune with Him, pray without ceasing and walk with Him in Spirit and in Truth... so when we call unto Him, He will answer and He will show and teach us great things! Our verse of the day is taken from Jeremiah 33:2-3 - This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it—the Lord is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’ These words were spoken by the Lord unto the prophet Jeremiah under peculiar circumstances. We read in the first verse of this chapter, “Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet confined in the court of the prison.” Jeremiah, at this time, then was a prisoner. But what brought him into prison? The real cause of his imprisonment was his faithfulness; as we find in the preceding chapter. “Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the court of the prison, which was in the King of Judah’s house. For Zedekiah king of Judah had confined him, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord, Behold I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.” (32:2, 3.) Jeremiah’s faithfulness, in the exercise of his prophetic office, was then the real, substantial cause of his imprisonment. But it would not do to assign this as the real cause; they must needs therefore lay hold of a pretext; and this pretext was, that Jeremiah was a traitor to Judah and Jerusalem. For when the army of the King of Egypt came up to deliver Jerusalem from Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, going out of the city, was apprehended in the gate of Benjamin, and imprisoned as intending to desert to the Chaldeans. (Jeremiah 37:11-15.) But what were the circumstances of the city itself? Jerusalem at this time was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar. For nearly a year had that mighty conqueror hemmed her in; the sword was made bare against her bosom; famine and pestilence were walking in her streets; and God was about to bring down upon her those judgments which he had so long denounced. It was a time of general mourning; a period of universal sorrow. Deeply was the heart of the prophet bowed within him; not merely by his own personal calamities, of which he had so very large a share, but also by the dark cloud of destruction which he saw was about to burst forth upon the city of Zion. It was, then, under this trying state, and amid these perplexing circumstances that the Lord spoke these words to Jeremiah—”Call unto me, and I will answer you; and show you great and mighty things, which you know not.” Powerful words! The LORD makes a promise to Jeremiah, and I believe that this promise is to every one of us as well, that if we call on Him (one way is through prayer), He will answer us, showing us great and mighty things that we do not know. This shows three things about God: He is powerful – ‘show you great and mighty things’. He must be indeed extremely powerful for Him to show us great and mighty things. In fact, He is all-powerful. He is omnipotent. He created the whole universe (the universe being a pretty insanely big and intensely complex place). Another way to look at it is that He has more power than the universe (having created it) and therefore by definition, He has infinite power over it. Never worry that God may not be able to work something in your life. That is absolutely nothing for Him to do. If He can make a star, or order the DNA in your body, then He can do absolutely anything else that you may need in His perfect time and on His purpose. He is faithful – ‘I will answer you’. God promises that He will always do right by us. If we are walking in the Spirit and ask something of Him in prayer, He will answer it. In fact I read about George Mueller recently, the famous British Christian who had a lot to do with orphanages used to write down every single prayer request he made, and when it was answered. Apparently he had been praying for a good friend of his to become a Christian for 27 years. The man he prayed for finally became a Christian at Mueller’s funeral. It is also said that over 1000 of his recorded prayers were answered within a day. This is only one of the examples of how faithful the Lord in His promise and you and I surely have one too! God is faithful! He is beyond our comprehension, and chooses to be – ‘which you do not know’. God is both beyond our comprehension, as the Creator of an infinitely complex universe, and chooses to express Himself in often incomprehensible ways. God is beyond us. We will never understand who He is completely. His love is wider and deeper than we can ever realize. Above that, He often chooses to answer our prayers in ways we would never expect. He does good for us that we can’t see. This glorifies Him, as the only One worthy of praise. If we could understand Him, we could be almost like Him. But we will never understand. What a wonderful God we serve! Never forget who God is, and on that remembrance, always commune with Him and pray without ceasing! Lets meditate on this verse. What is God saying to you right now in the light of this? What will you do about it? When?
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 03:42:00 +0000
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