SCRIPTURE: Acts (NIV) 26:15 “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied. 16 ‘Now get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen of me and what I will show you. 17 I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them
OBSERVATION: Here the Apostle Paul is telling of how he met the Lord. He must have been greatly surprised that the Lord was the very one He had been persecuting! He was probably even more surprised that this Jesus did not come with revenge, but with an assignment. Paul was being sent to people from whom he would need to be rescued. Even before the first time Paul needed to be rescued, he had already received the promise of rescue from the Lord!
APPLICATION: Experiencing trouble is not an indication that I have missed the Lord. I should not be surprised when trouble comes my way. And I too have the promise of the Lord to be with me and to bring me not to a life free from trouble, but to a life victorious over trouble. Like Andre Couch sang: “…if I never had a problem, I’d never know that God could solve them; I’d never know what faith in God can do.”
God already knows what it will take to accomplish the assignment He has given me. I wonder if God is not hurt when I look to others to do what He has already promised to do! He knows my limitations. He knew them when He gave me the assignment! He not only wants to accomplish something through me, at the same time He wants to accomplish something in me. He is growing my faith! 2Chronicles 20:12 “…We do not know what to do, but our eyes are upon you!”
PRAYER: Lord, if you send me to a place in which I will need rescue, you will rescue. If you send me to a place that needs provision, you will provide. If you send me to a place that needs a message, you will give the message. Lord, my eyes are on you! Amen
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