Choose this day whom you will serve.
This is a conscious daily moment by moment decision.
The level of intensity of the current crisis will continue to insist that we make decisions between faith and fear. The world’s opinion versus God’s prompting. The Kingdom of Darkness versus the Kingdom of Light.
I’m interested that the start of 1 Kings 18 indicates that Jezebel had made it her mission to kill off the prophets. It seems in the current season, the prophetic has all but gone.
The current economic climate is forcing change, those who don’t know Christ will respond out of fear in worldly ways – the wisdom of this world however is not the wisdom of our God.
I’m challenged to respond as a son of God – that my heart remains open before Him, and that like Caleb, I function with a whole heart and a different Spirit (Num 14:24).
Currently, the Holy Spirit is helping me understand that this is a season of refining – that now, for a little while we may have to suffer grief and all kinds of trials for the purpose of proving our faith which is of greater worth than gold which perishes, though refined by fire.
Let’s buy the gold described in Revelation 3:18
I am the man described; wretched, poor, blind and naked. This is our opportunity to respond as God’s people in the market in the only way we should, the way the Israelites did when they saw the fire fall in response to Elijah’s simple prayer – they fell prostrate before God. In recognition that God is God their hearts melted, they fell on their faces. Their response was to worship.
As their heart changed – God moved. The Heavens opened. The drought broke.
Let’s encourage each other to see beyond the obvious – to see and hear with spiritual eyes and ears. To encourage each other to endure the refiners fire if needs be and come out of this as overcomers and demonstrators to an unbelieving world of the fact that His Kingdom can come and that as His will is done by people in the market place like us we will prove to influence an unbelieving world that He lives and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Barry Thom
