How is your resilience before the hot potatoes? (Part 2).
• Pro 20:4 -> “The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.”.
All of us were created in a society that crave for the things done instantaneously. The most important is the outcome. Nonetheless, Jesus said that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). Although He is the Omega, the Last and the End, He is also the Alpha, the First and the Beginning (Rev 22:13).
We only care about the end. Nevertheless, first of all, we need to seek in Jesus His plan amidst what we are living and the way which we ought to go through in order to confirm His Truth.
See the example of Moses. The Creator send him to Egypt to enjoin pharaoh that he freed the Israelites, even knowing that Moses wouldn’t be heard:
• Exo 3:19 -> “But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.”.
And not only this! Moses wouldn’t be heard because the Creator would preclude pharaoh of complying with him:
• Exo 7:1-4 -> “And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.”.
This sounds crazy, once our hope is that everything we produce leads to good aftermaths. Well, in Christ, certainly they will, but not as we hope. The order is to fulfill the purport of the Creator (Isaiah 55:10,11). In this case, the initial purpose wasn’t the freedom of Israel, but the manifestation of the greatness of His power.
And this would be extremely important in the future for the conversion of Rahab (Joshua 2:9-11).
If we hope in Jesus pursuant to our expectance, we can get very disheartened. See the case of Elijah. He knew the Creator very well, was used by Him to do great and incredible miracles. By the way, in 1Kings 18, he was used in an extraordinary way.
Nonetheless, when he saw that, notwithstanding his efforts, Ahab and Jezebel didn’t convert, he got moped (1Ki 19:4). He thought that all his ministry was being in vain. Nonetheless shew that, through his ministry, the Creator could conserve 7.000 believers:
• 1Ki 19:18 -> “Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
And his dejection was so grievous that, even after the Creator speaking to Him, he didn’t recover all his enthusiasm. So much so that, see the order of the Creator.
• 1Ki 19:15,16 -> “And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.”.
Nonetheless, he didn’t find interest in anointing Hazael and Jehu, but only Elisha to be prophet in his place. His desire to die (1Ki 19:4) stayed impregnated in his soul to the point of wishing to be replaced as soon as possible.
So, if you are undergoing some difficult moment, don’t do like Elijah, who went to the “Mount of the Creator” especially to speak to Him (1Ki 19:8). He is omniscient, omnipresent and all the Earth belongs to Him (and not only one mount – Ps 24:1).
So, have a good day certain that, in Jesus, all your work isn’t in vain (Heb 13:5,6). If you aren’t seeing the fruit of your effort it is because the outcome projected by the Creator goes beyond everything you could think, desire or dream (Eph 3:20,21) (as it happened with Joseph that thought, through his dreams that he would govern only on his family when, indeed, he would be governor on all the Egyptian empire.
• Pro 20:4 -> “The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.”.
All of us were created in a society that crave for the things done instantaneously. The most important is the outcome. Nonetheless, Jesus said that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6). Although He is the Omega, the Last and the End, He is also the Alpha, the First and the Beginning (Rev 22:13).
We only care about the end. Nevertheless, first of all, we need to seek in Jesus His plan amidst what we are living and the way which we ought to go through in order to confirm His Truth.
See the example of Moses. The Creator send him to Egypt to enjoin pharaoh that he freed the Israelites, even knowing that Moses wouldn’t be heard:
• Exo 3:19 -> “But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand.”.
And not only this! Moses wouldn’t be heard because the Creator would preclude pharaoh of complying with him:
• Exo 7:1-4 -> “And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.”.
This sounds crazy, once our hope is that everything we produce leads to good aftermaths. Well, in Christ, certainly they will, but not as we hope. The order is to fulfill the purport of the Creator (Isaiah 55:10,11). In this case, the initial purpose wasn’t the freedom of Israel, but the manifestation of the greatness of His power.
And this would be extremely important in the future for the conversion of Rahab (Joshua 2:9-11).
If we hope in Jesus pursuant to our expectance, we can get very disheartened. See the case of Elijah. He knew the Creator very well, was used by Him to do great and incredible miracles. By the way, in 1Kings 18, he was used in an extraordinary way.
Nonetheless, when he saw that, notwithstanding his efforts, Ahab and Jezebel didn’t convert, he got moped (1Ki 19:4). He thought that all his ministry was being in vain. Nonetheless shew that, through his ministry, the Creator could conserve 7.000 believers:
• 1Ki 19:18 -> “Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
And his dejection was so grievous that, even after the Creator speaking to Him, he didn’t recover all his enthusiasm. So much so that, see the order of the Creator.
• 1Ki 19:15,16 -> “And the LORD said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.”.
Nonetheless, he didn’t find interest in anointing Hazael and Jehu, but only Elisha to be prophet in his place. His desire to die (1Ki 19:4) stayed impregnated in his soul to the point of wishing to be replaced as soon as possible.
So, if you are undergoing some difficult moment, don’t do like Elijah, who went to the “Mount of the Creator” especially to speak to Him (1Ki 19:8). He is omniscient, omnipresent and all the Earth belongs to Him (and not only one mount – Ps 24:1).
So, have a good day certain that, in Jesus, all your work isn’t in vain (Heb 13:5,6). If you aren’t seeing the fruit of your effort it is because the outcome projected by the Creator goes beyond everything you could think, desire or dream (Eph 3:20,21) (as it happened with Joseph that thought, through his dreams that he would govern only on his family when, indeed, he would be governor on all the Egyptian empire.