Great and Mighty - January 22, 2010

Good Friday morning! I note this morning that God will show us great and mighty things, not just things, as we see in the LWF verse for this morning. “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” (Jer 33:3) God also kindly left that in a verse easy to remember 33:3 in Jeremiah. I am encouraged by this verse. For not only does God promise to show us things when we call upon Him, but great and mighty things. No doubt, you and I have called on God for many things, but do we always expect great and mighty things?

We often think small in the answers we expect from God. "Oh, God will provide and somehow we'll get by." Sounds like an answer I have tried to put in God's voice from time to time. "Get by?" God has already promised to provide our needs; so what are these great and mighty things that we will see? We might say that faith is the limit. If we think small, God will answer small. What if you expect these great and mighty things and not only expect to get by, but to have enough to help the whole town get by? What if you expect not only a job for yourself or a friend, but enough jobs to get everyone back to work?

I have heard that so many people have given up on finding a job that a new surge in self-employment and entrepreneurial endeavor is taking place all around us. Please don't ask me to spell that last bit again. Do you know what is required for so many of us, and I do include myself in that, to strike out on our own like that? Of course, you do! The knowledge that we aren't on our own at all. God is with us, Jesus lives in our hearts, and our faith in the Almighty will see us through. Not all are called to take this step though. Many have faith that is just as strong in that God will lead them to a new position in another company. This takes faith because not many are hiring these days.

Obey the Word, call upon God and expect those great and mighty things!

Bucky

Hmm, I seem to have forgotten the signs of the New Earth the past couple of days. How about healing and growing for today? When we look at the living creatures around us, and our own bodies, we see the ability to heal and grow. Injuries don't remain as they are; we heal. Infants don't remain as babies; they grow into adults. The curse we feel as pain stands against healing. If sin and the curse had their way, we would never heal from an injury. However, we do heal and we know from Jesus' ministry that He loves to heal. In fact this imperfect healing we experience now is only a reminder of the trees in the New Jerusalem that will be used to heal the nations. As we know a nation is more than just the people in it, so it would seem that God will heal everything when the time comes.