BIBLE IN A YEAR: Psa 114-118
NOT FORSAKEN
MEMORIZE: "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up" (Psalms 27:10)
READ: Acts 3:1-11
The Lord is taking you on a ride to the land of surprise this season. Today’s reading talks of a man who was born lame. We want to learn a few lessons from this story. First, although the man was born lame, he did not die lame. This tells us that anything that has a beginning also has an end. Every problem in your life has an expiry date. Since it started one day, it will surely expire one day. That you were born poor is not an excuse to die poor. If you die poor, it is because you choose to end that way; That was not God’s original plan! God’s plan is to bring the best out of your worst. You must hold on in faith until your problem expires. Between the manufacturing date and expiry date of a problem, stay in the place of faith, and look up to one person - God. As you look up in faith and continually serve, worship and praise Him, irrespective of your challenges, the problem could expire before its programmed date. Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 says there is a season for everything. This is your appointed season of change.
The lame man could not move about except when carried by people. His situation made even close family members turn away their faces, yet some people still volunteered to carry him to the temple premises daily. This shows that no matter how deplorable or repulsive your situation may be, God has appointed some helpers to stay with you. If nobody stays to help, God will always be there to do so. When Bartimeaus cried for help, nobody volunteered to assist him. They rather shut him up but the Lord heard his cry. Are you going through a situation where there seems to be no one to help? Be not dismayed, the Lord will help you. He will hear your cry. He will answer your prayer. Call upon Him today. He will surely make a way for you. Hence, David says in Psalms 27:10: “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up”. Are you forsaken by your loved ones, friends and neighbors? If you are, rejoice! That automatically qualifies you as a divine project. God will take you up and care for you with His everlasting arms. The Lord will never abandon you. Never allow any situation, trial, lack, denial, disappointment or failure make you forsake your One and only Helper. As long as you have God, situations and conditions have no choice but to adjust in your favor.
ACTIONPOINT: If you love life, keep every gossip and tale bearer at an arms length (Prov. 20:19). Ask God for grace never to divulge secrets to those who will use them against you.
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