It’s all His!
Verse for
Today: Monday, August 05, 2013
1 Samuel 1:20 – She named her son Samuel, saying,
“Because I asked the Lord for him.”
We serve a God who gives us according to our needs
so that His name will be glorified through it all. He gives us the right
desires and prompts us through His Spirit to ask Him to give it to us. Thus God
enables us to pray for the emerging needs in our lives. But He will give it to
us only at His time. So He expects us to keep praying and depending on Him for
our needs. Hannah made a vow to God that she will give God’s gift back to Him
once she receives it. Hannah had no doubt in her mind that when God gives her a
gift, it still belonged to the Giver. She wanted God to remove her resentment
at home and prove to others around her that God would give her the desire of
her heart. But Hannah was not selfish and possessive about the gift she
believed God would give her at the right time. He poured her heart out before
God and continually asked for it. She was relentless about her deep desire in
her heart and believed that her God would be sufficient to give her the deepest
need of her heart. Ultimately when God gave her the desire of her heart, she
linked her son’s name with God. She reminded him and others that he was
received from the Lord. Hannah gave the son back to God for His service all his
life without any hesitation. Today we work with the God of Hannah who is
committed to giving us the desires of our heart if our desires are pleasing to
Him. When we are His, He wants all that happens in our lives also to be His.
Our God wants us to have only that which He gives us and not what the world offers.
What God gives us is divine with an eternal legacy whereas what the world gives
is temporary.
Hello friend, have you been praying for your
various needs and wonder whether these are what God wants in your life? Do you
have anything in your life today that is not given to you by God? Perhaps the
world would have given you many glittering things to lure you into its vanity.
It is also possible that you would have secured a few things out of your
intelligent and shrewd smart moves. But your God wants you to have only those
things that He is pleased to give you. He knows all your needs and will give it
you at His time so that all you have will be His gifts to you according to His
will and pleasure. He proved to Hannah that she couldn’t have the desire of her
heart fulfilled in her own capacity and smartness. As her dependence on God
increased and as she demonstrated it through prayer of importunity, God blessed
her with the desire of her heart. But God gave far more than she ever asked for
or expected. Today God wants us to be totally dependent on Him and give our
desires to Him so that our life would be a platform for Him to bless us with
His gifts. All that Hannah had were God’s gifts to her and it was far more than
what she asked of the Lord. God wants us to reach such a stage of dependence on
Him and receive all that we need from Him. Then we, along with all that we have
will belong to our God just as the case of Hannah. That is when we will be able to say that we
are truly His and He is ours to possess, enjoy and worship.
Psalms 23:1 – The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall
not be in want.
Thought for
Today
The heart tuned to God will depend totally on Him
for every need at all times and will receive it at His best time.
Prayer for
Today
Lord: Help me to confidently say that I have
nothing in my life other than what You have given me. Amen!
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