The challenge… ^_^ August 14, 2007
Posted by Anya in : I won't keep things purposely vague , 2commentsCome, my soul, thy suit prepare:
Jesus loves to answer prayer;
He Himself has bid thee pray,
Therefore will not say thee nay.
Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee bring;
For His grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much.
This hymn (which we sang last night) coupled I suppose with the book which I’m currently reading, Far Pavilions, struck me. The rulers of India, at least in this book, are a bit breathtaking to an American. They think someone’s trying to poison them? Fine, they have them killed. They think someone could become a threat to the throne? They’re dead. Someone looks at them wrong? The fate is the same.
Hmm… I guess that this is also tied up with our study of Exodus and the whole concept of the holiness of God…
Anyway, somewhere in that muddle, I started thinking about the hymn in the context of God being a King like that. And thought, Whoa. Obviously, that’s a rather insignificant comparison (God is far more powerful than any petty king in India) and a rather insignificant reaction (not on par with Isaiah’s Woe is me, kill me now Lord!).
But. The point remains. God is far… greater… than we can imagine.
Are we praying that way? Am I?
So take on a challenge. And don’t just take on something that is obviously going to work out well. That isn’t a challenge. Find something that is a “Hard Thing” (my Rebelution side coming out there) which is something which God commands and DO IT.
For His grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much.
Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. 37 For,
“Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
38 but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
(ESV from www.esv.org)
