A Thought for
the Day – 064 – Pick me up at the Airport!
Justice
and injustice walk hand in hand in the courts, in the cathedrals, in the country
and in the courtyards of our private dwellings. Why would that be says the
curious observer? Because in one’s personal righteousness, wickedness is present
and in one’s personal wickedness, righteousness in present; this is the evil
under the sun, Ecclesiastes 3:16-17.
Comments and
challenges
I once heard of a professor in
California who went on a trip to Washington State to a small college for a
conference. Upon returning home he called his wife to pick him up at the airport
and she reported that she could not pick him up. Her reply was; “dear, you must
fly back to Washington State and get the car! You drove there”! Now the story is
funny and sounds untrue and it has been so long ago that I heard it, I cannot
remember if it was true; but I am home and the truck is in the
garage.
Isn’t memory nice? And forget it, don’t
place your glasses on the top of your head, surely you will spend hours looking
for those things. How can we ever find something we can’t see as we grope around
in our blindness to find it? This is the way we look for answers to prayer too!
We look to God to answer a prayer, than we go to all the physical and familiar
spots expecting to find or see the provision of our request.
I am becoming convinced that when we
pray specifically for something in The Righteousness of Jesus Christ and in the
Power of the Holy Spirit; Romans 13:14 that God immediately answers the prayer.
Jeremiah 33:3; but we look for His answer in all the common areas of our human
realm. God is not obligated to answer us in in our way of thinking, if He was
obligated to respond physically, there would be no Spiritual Growth. There is a
simpler answer or application to this thought in John 4:23-24.
No doubt we
have these verses memorized and no doubt if you are like me; after approaching
the Throne of God in prayer for old Susie’s health; we expect to see young Susie
recover; when we see her again and “there she is” still old… we grumble and say
to the LORD, “well LORD, you will answer in your time. I say “Bah Humbug!” God
has answered the prayer, old Susie’s soul is as fresh as the day God gave it to
her and it is our soul that we have covered with physical blindness that needs
the cleansing once again for looking in all the wrong places for the physical
answer. James 4:1-10
Now what I am saying requires a deeper
study, one of which I am not equipped at this point in time to focus on, but it
is occurring to me and reassuring too that since I am in pain with this current
event in my life and I am not alone in this so I am not trying say “Whoopee!
Look at me!” my intention is to point out that we often look to the immediate
release or answer to be something of what we want. When God in fact; has a
different answer; one that is directly related to our soul’s encouragement and
spiritual growth and we often reject it. It is our soul life that God is
interested in; while our interest is in our physical life.
Sort of like the child who has a
brother or sister and sees that the glass of milk given to the other sibling is
fuller than the one he or she got and says to the parent. I don’t what that
glass… “I want the one Susie has” and God says, “Ah”! Child, “you have it, you
just don’t see it” open those spiritual eyes and close your physical ones. Here
is another simple thought. When did God save you? Are you still waiting or did
He immediately answer you? Yes, He immediately answered you; physically and
experientially we live this out in the partial blessing of God the Holy Spirit
and I believe that the same applies to our prayers.
The physical life and spiritual life of
the believer walk hand in hand but remember the outward man is decaying while
the inner man is growing; the apostle Paul puts it this way; see 2 Corinthians
4:16-18.
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Hebrews 9:28 - so Christ was offered to bear
the sins of many, and unto them that look for Him shall He appear a second time
without sin unto salvation. Jesse <><
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