IT IS NOT OVER WITH YOU: Devotion for Friday
July 1, 2016
Text: Micah 7:7 – 13
Memory verse: Micah 7:8 – Do not rejoice over me, my
enemy; when I fall, I will arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a
light to me.
Micah showed great faith in
God both personally as we have in Micah 7:7) and on Israel’s behalf (Micah 7:8-10)
as he proclaimed that (1) he would wait upon God because God hears and saves
when help is needed, (2) God would bring His people through when times were
tough, (3) Israel must be patient in punishment because God would bring them
out of the darkness, and (4) their enemies would be punished. This is expression
of faith indeed which arose from a comprehensive knowledge of what God can do. Micah
knew that God is merciful and he enthused such faith.
New Living Translation and
New International Version used gloat in place of rejoice as we have in New King
James Version. Gloat means to “show you are happy about your own success or
somebody else’s failure in an unpleasant way.” The lesson from Micah’s faith is
that we can also have a relationship with God to the extent that we will
develop confidence in God like Micah. No great talent is required here. It
takes faith in God and a willingness to act on that faith.
Beloved, are you currently
being confronted by problems of life that people are making mockery of you,
thinking your life is over as Israel was mocked? Is it that there is no prospective
life partner, no job, living in abject poverty; you are now an orphan or no
child after many years of marriage? Cheer up you will rise again. Is it that
you business has collapsed and you have packed up? In this new month, you will
surely rise when you believe God. You who rejoices over another person’s
predicament, are you aware that what you have achieved is not out of your
strength or righteousness? It is not over with you. Tell yourself that it is
not over. Ps 30:5, Mic. 7:7 & Isaiah 62:2–4 should comfort you. Happy New
month
Food for Thought: You are God’s project and
He has never abandoned any project.
Prayer: God, lift me up again so
that all my enemies will eat their words as they will come back to congratulate
me.
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