Finding God's Favor

June 2

Finding God’s favor. At first contemplation the prospect of finding God’s favor sounds like it would have the same impact upon our lives as would our winning of the lottery for ‘mega millions’! It sounds like the ultimate opportunity to ‘hit the jackpot.’ But God isn’t the lotto in the sky. His purposes are loftier than that.

Perhaps then, finding God’s favor means we would become more socially adept. Some of us are constrained from achieving any real social concourse by our inability to relate well to other people. We tend to be introverted and our efforts to interact with others fail abysmally.

Of course, the Lord would have us to be accomplished in establishing relationships and building rapport with others because part of our purpose in being here is to share the good news of Jesus with others. If we are tongue-tied and socially inept, we will be ineffective toward that end so it behooves Him to facilitate His own purposes by giving us more social grace.

But God’s favor exceeds even that lofty endeavor. In Exodus 33:17, God makes this astonishing promise to Moses—“I will do the very thing you have asked because you have found favor in My sight.” The very thing he asked. But, Moses, like God’s people today, knew he must ask in accordance with God’s will in order to reap the fruit of that amazing promise.