Too Wonderful for Words

April 2

Trusting the Lord in time, while we are finite in our understanding and limited in our spiritual scope and vision requires obedience to the Lord and willingness to step out in faith when doing so seems foolish in the eyes of our peers. No one wants to be the ‘odd’ guy who’s ridiculed behind his back.

Remember Gideon, when the Lord appeared to him in Judges 6:12 and addressed him as “…thou mighty man of valor,” responded in vs. 15 with the equivalent of, “Who, me?” This farmer couldn’t fathom that he was being addressed by the Living God and given the directive to defeat the foe of Israel.

And we still react in the same way when we contemplate the promises in the Bible that seem too wonderful for words. Though we are emboldened to reach out for salvation by the desperation of our plight when we recognize our total inability to satisfy the expectations of a holy God, we often stop there.

We are unable to grasp the notion that we can pray for healing, for deliverance, for blessings—for ourselves and for others—and be empowered by the Holy Spirit to see divine answers to our prayers. We must accept, as did Gideon, that indeed a small army of believers can transform the world! (Judges 7:7)