Life Capsule for Today 24th September, 2024
Theme: Don’t give up (3)
Memory Verse: Gal 6:9
9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. ESV
Topic: Why Me?
Today’s Reading: Job 4:3-6
3 Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. 4 Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees. 5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged; it strikes you, and you are dismayed. 6 Should not your piety be your confidence and your blameless ways your hope? NIV
Words of the Ministry:
Yesterday, still on the theme Don’t Give Up, we saw the implication of the temptation of Satan showing us the people of the world and giving the impression we have been left behind. We saw form the life of Moses that that is God’s way of making his men, we start the journey by being a loner, we are crucified to the world and the world is crucified to us. Today I like to look at another common phrase among believers, while some agree that saints are indeed different from the world, what they still struggle with is the idea that the current challenge is facing them in particular and not another Christian. We are used to comforting others forgetting that all believers must go through their individual wilderness phase to grow in life. Many have been so deceived that that they think religious activities and financial donations can totally take away trial, persecution, and sufferings.
This phrase “why me” reminds me of a personal experience I like to share to drive home the point. In the year 2008, my mum took ill and despite all spending and prayers I eventually lost her in the hospital. While growing she made a lot of sacrifices which I believed as I was starting to get little earnings, it was time for her to start reaping all she had sowed. The news of her death was a major blow, I was saddened in my heart, I felt disappointed that she still died after all. While travelling to Lagos to see her corpse which had been placed in the mortuary, I remember asking the Lord the question “Why Me?”. The implication of the statement was, even if it would happen, it shouldn’t be me and the answer I got was twofold, the first was an audible voice in my ears that also asked, “Who should it be “ and the second was a part of scripture I never knew by heart that came heavy as an impression which is our today’s reading Job 4.3-6.
Saints, from my personal experience you would see the issues that were wrong with my heart and many hearts. We find it easy to encourage people but find it difficult to bear when it affects us, we have a sense that it should happen to others and we can comfort them but when it happens to us, we don’t see it as the will of God for that time. Your case may be a health challenge, business failure, financial crisis, marital difficulty, bareness, job loss, accident, child loss, delinquent children etc, and you ask God why me? Saints, we must say no to the temptation of blaming God or questioning him. It is a statement of pride and self-ego, sense of entitlement and an ungrateful heart to feel you are better than those it should have happened to while you comfort them. The world in fallen and it is not our home. In the world we must suffer trails and persecution, I like to close with a statement from Paul 2 Cor 4:7-10 “7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.” NIV. Please Join us this Sunday for Peniel Encounter by 4pm, shalom!
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