GOD
UNDERSTANDS OUR PLIGHT: Devotion for Friday September 9, 2016
Text:
Genesis 26: 24, 25 Memory
verse: Genesis 26:24
Most times all we need to overcome the problems
of life we pass through is just someone to encourage us; someone to hold our
hands or someone we can lay our heads on. Sometimes we don’t even need the money or
physical help. Once we have a heart to understand us, we will be okay.
If you are in good relationship with God and
usually spend time with Him, you will definitely know that He understands our
plight and our need for special encouragement. Occasionally, when we are
confronted with series of problems in life, we develop emotion depression and then
we will need a heart to lean on. This was the case of Isaac as he needed
especial encouragement because of the insult, envy, jealousy and outrage he
received from the Philistines.
With the persistent attack and threat, he had
to return to the place where Abraham his father died. Such remembrance of the
death of his father and the persecution he suffered in the hands of the
Philistines afflicted his soul. God who made him and called him into the covenant
He made with his father, Abraham, understood his plight and immediately appears
to comfort and support him in his trials, by a renewal of all the promises made
to him and his father. After God had spoken to him, he built an altar there.
God’s words brought reassurance to Isaac that He was there with him. That might
have been the reason why he started building the altar for God.
There are times when we are challenged and
wronged, and we feel as if God is far from us or has forgotten us. One might
ask why God didn’t intervene when Isaac was being wronged by the Philistines.
Why did He now appear after he has suffered loses? The reason is that the land
of Philistine was not the place God promised Isaac. Again, the famine that made
him to run to the land of Philistine was over. God expected him to have
returned. God knows when to appear for our good. Are you going through hard
times, sickness, in prison, being oppressed, etc? God understands your
situation and will appear for your deliverance soon. Don’t give up.
Food
for Thought:
Jeremiah 29:11
Prayer:
Lord, you know all my ordeals, send your words of encouragement to pacify and
reassure me of your love in Jesus name.
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