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Luke 1:5-7
Message No. 0721 | Twitter @GodandUs | www.wisdom-speaks.ca
Too often when we are not blaming the devil for something, we are blaming God. These two trades have existed from the beginning. When Eve ate the forbidden fruit and encouraged her husband to do the same, blame was all they resorted to. When God caught them, Adam blamed Him for giving him the woman who made him eat the fruit. When Eve was confronted, she blamed the devil for making her to eat the fruit. Thousands of years later, we have not been able to rid ourselves of the blame game, irrespective of how ridiculous the situations might seem.
While it is fair to believe that man is irredeemably doomed to blame the devil for all misfortunes, including the obvious results of choices we make daily, how does it even make sense to blame God for anything? He has declared in His Word, and we know it for sure, that He is good. His mercies endure forever. His thoughts towards us are thoughts of good and not of evil. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives. We repeat these soundbites daily, including at the end of every prayer. But when something happens that we cannot explain, and when we seem to be tired of blaming the devil, we turn to God.
One of the things we blame God for, is His ‘refusal’ to forgive us our sins. When we experience delays or something bad happens to us, some are quick to say it’s because of their past sins, and it’s because God has not forgiven them. We read that if we confess and forsake our sins, He is faithful to forgive us and cleanse us from all our unrighteousness. But it seems that these words are just sounds that come out of our mouths, they mean nothing to us, whereas, if we can just take a little look into His Word, we will see countless similar situations to ours, and we will discover that God is no respecter of persons.
In Luke chapter 1 verse 5 to 7, the Bible says:
There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well advanced in years.
The keywords in the above passage are, Zacharias and Elizabeth were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless. Just a little thinking after reading words like these in the Bible points to the fact that God deliberately put them there to forestall drawing the wrong conclusions from the situations that we sometimes find ourselves. Zacharias and Elizabeth were a Power Couple. They were blameless before God. Yet, they had a problem. Elizabeth, the Bible says, was barren. But why? How could such saints be barren?
Certain things happen to God’s children, that we cannot explain, and any attempt to explain them sometimes puts us at odds with God’s plans and purposes for our lives. We cannot explain why it took Sarah 90 years before she could conceive and bear a child. We cannot explain why after Samuel anointed David as king, Saul spent more than one decade hunting and trying to kill him. We cannot explain how Stephen, one of only a handful of people said to be “full of the Holy Spirit” could be stoned to death and God did not ricochet the stones back to sender.
One thing we must stop to do when something we do not like happens to us, is blaming God. We must stop thinking it’s because of our sins. We must stop thinking that God loves the other guys more than He does us. We must stop trying to explain what we clearly can’t, because more often than not, the things that happen to us have nothing to do with our statuses in Christ. Rather, we must consider these to be the holy place of surrender to our maker. It must be a place to declare, as Job did, I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth.
PLEASE ACT NOW:
If you are yet to give your life to Christ, you do not have a covenant with God and His promises do not apply to you. To come under these promises, please surrender your life to Christ today, by praying this prayer:
Lord I know that I am a sinner and I am unable to save myself. I am sorry for my sins and I pray that you please forgive me. I am aware that Your Son Jesus died for my sins and I accept Him as my Lord and savior. I surrender my life unto you from this moment. Please take control of my entire being and help me to be obedient to your Word, going forward. Thank you, Lord, for hearing me. I have prayed in Jesus’ name. Amen.
If you prayed the foregoing prayer, you have just been born again. Please find a Bible believing church in your area and ask to see the pastor. Let him or her know that you have just given your life to Christ and s/he will guide you on next steps in your journey as a child of God. The Lord bless you!
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