Deuteronomy 4.32-34 32 Ask
now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created
human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has
anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been
heard of? 33 Has any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of
fire, as you have, and lived? 34 Has any god ever tried to take for
himself one nation out of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by
war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds,
like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very
eyes? – Moses
No. The answer
to these questions is No. Has anything so great as this ever happened? No. Has
any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire as you have, and
lived? No. Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another
by testing, signs, wonders, war, a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by
great and awesome deeds??? No.
The answer is no
because no one ever had any of this happen to them. Other than the nation of
Israel.
And God did it for His people because the very next verse
says this: You were shown these things so
that you might know that the Lord is God; besides Him there is no other.
(V. 35)
Is God the same today? Does God work in the lives of His
people today? Does God provide marvelously for those in need who look to Him
for help? Has God caused the circumstances to bend in favor toward His
children? Has God brought salvation and provision in time of need out of His
great compassion and care? Does God defend His own? Does God still do great and
marvelous things?
Yes.
God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is the
One who never changes and in whom there is no shadow. God loves His children
today with the same intensity as He did our brothers and sisters of old. God
never changes. He is still the same.
And we can count on Him today. It takes faith, but we can
count on Him today.
Friends, I am in a position where I am reevaluating my
understanding of God and here’s what I’ll say: I need Him. I suspect, in some
measure you do too. Your circumstances are not mine, nor are mine your, but the
common denominator is this: we need God.
Are we going to find help at our greatest point of need
outside of Him? No. Are we going to be able to live in peace and contentment
apart from Him? No. Is there anyone anywhere who loves and care for us at the
level He does? No. So then, let’s give Him our all and watch what He does on
our behalf.
Father, there is no
one like You, and for us as Your kids, there is no one, but You. May we seek You
and keep seeking You, not for the temporal things of this earth, but also as
well for the culture of Heaven that awaits us. Amen
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