Day 22
Principle: If you will obediently do what God asks you to do, He will graciously do what only He can do.
What is the root issue in every struggle in life? Just one thing: trust.
After the impoverished single mom told Elijah she had no more food, he encouraged her with the Word of the Lord, “For thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry, until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’” (1Kings 17:14)
It takes faith, both to say this and to hear it! “So she went away and did according to the word of Elijah; and she and he and her household ate for many days.” (1Kings 17:15) The widow had faith to obey the Word of the Lord, and God miraculously provided flour and oil for her.
The root issue in her life, as in ours, was trust. Was she willing to trust God to provide for her every need? If she obediently did what He asked her to do, He would graciously do what only He could.
At one point Jesus, obeying the Father, stuck his fingers in a deaf man’s ears. That was big, but what followed was bigger. Jesus then took spittle and, placing it on His own fingers, put it on the man’s tongue because he could not speak, either. Now, putting fingers in deaf ears and spittle on mute tongues may be just another day at the office for some people, but for most of us that level of obedience would set a world record.
Trusting God will take miraculous faith. But that, thank God, is available to all of us, if we will but ask for it.
- Has God ever asked something of you that seemed a bit much?
- Did you obey Him? What was the outcome?
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