Learning experiences in faith!
Verse for Today: Friday, November 02,
2012
Deuteronomy 8:3 – He humbled you, causing you to hunger
and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known,
to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes
from the mouth of the Lord.
God uses daily experiences to teach us lessons in life. He
allows us to be weak so that we can learn to depend on His strength. He causes
us to be hungry so that we would cry unto Him for food which He provides
miraculously. He permits sickness in our lives to show us that He is our healer
of all our infirmities. He humbles us and helps us to empty ourselves of all
our pride and come to Him with open hands and hearts to get filled. God leads
us through wonderful experiences which might taste bitter to start with, but
will end up in sweet savor of trust and faith in Him. The people of Israel had
such situations of valleys with tears, fear, hunger, thirst, weaknesses,
sickness, attack from the enemies and heat of the situations. These experiences
were unbearably painful and hard to pass through. But God used it all as
learning experiences for His children to grow in dependence on Him. Israelites
had such experiences throughout their sojourn for forty years. They learned big
and valuable lessons in life through these experiences which fortified their
faith and trust in their God. They found that God was there for all their needs
and that He was sufficient to meet all challenges in life. The God of Israel is
with all His children all the time to help them learn to hold on to Him in all
situations and circumstances. He allows us to go through rough patches in life
which are part of the learning experiences prepared for us by Him. Each day
gives us new experiences in life to learn the greatness of our God to meet all
our needs in all our unfavorable circumstances. He proves that He is the
unchanging God no matter how the circumstances change.
Dear reader, are you making use of all the opportunities God
gives you to learn valuable lessons about the way our God cares for you? Are
you tempted to feel that these challenging pressures in life are inconveniences
in life or are you able to discern its values in building up your faith and
trust in Him? Through these painful experiences of shortages, weaknesses,
sicknesses, loneliness, rejection and warfare, your Lord shows you that He is
ever closer to you to give you His strength to withstand it all. He comes to
provide you with a buffer for each of your difficult situations as and when you
call upon His name. He uses these situations to prove to you that He keeps all
His promises to you. He shows you in the valleys of your life that He is with
you through rain, snow, sunshine, dark clouds, dampness and the heat of the desert
that He walks with you and carries you in His hands. He keeps you under His
shadow. When you cry, He comes with the right answers to all your cares. But
His primary purpose in allowing these bitter experiences in your life is to
strengthen your faith to weather away these storms and prepare you for greater
storms in life. When you find life a Marah, God makes it sweet. When you find
lions around you, He comes to shut their mouths. When the furnaces open their mouths
to devour you, He comes to encompass around you with Himself. Through it all,
our God teaches us to depend on Him in all our situations. Today let us look
for learning experiences daily to keep trusting God for all our situations and
grow in our faith in His unchanging grace in all circumstances.
Psalms 94:14 – For the Lord will not reject His people; He
will never forsake His inheritance.
Thought for Today
All our experiences
each day fill us with lessons and evidences of God’s faithfulness to us.
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