The right to be trusted

Hello everyone,

How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord.

Primary Text

“O Israel, says the Lord, why did your fathers desert me? What sin did they find in Me that turned them away and changed them into fools who worship idols?” Jeremiah 2v4-5 (TLB)

Beloved, God has earned the right to be obeyed and trusted. Or has He done anything that should cause us to move away from following after Him? Has He done anything that has caused you to be offended in Him? The Bible tells us of some of the things Jesus told the disciples about how they would be persecuted, and He said “I have told you all these things, so that you should not be offended (taken unawares and falter, or be caused to stumble and fall away). [I told you to keep you from being scandalized and repelled.]” (John 16v1, AMP). Beloved, what is it that you are going through that is causing offense against the Lord? What does God have to say about it? Are you like John the Baptist beginning to question if God really is God? Like Job, stand strong. The Lord is good, and His works are being done. As He cautioned John the Baptist, blessed are those who are not offended in Him: “Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” Matthew 11v2-6 (KJV)

Prayer

Father, we thank You for Your Word. We thank You for You are faithful and true and have won the right to be trusted. Father, please keep us in our hours of weakness, let Your grace be sufficient for us, let Your presence always be with us, let the power of Christ pitch a tent over us and help us never to be offended at You in Jesus name, amen.