Rest For A Weary Soul Daily Devotional - Monday, October 19, 2009
Praise the Lord and Good Evening,
Quick and easy. Two requirements most of us have when it comes to going through trouble.....Lord, if it has to come let it be quick and easy. That combination should certainly bring about the least amount of pressure/pain as possible.
Wouldn't it be just lovely if we could get the Lord to follow that concept? Quick and easy. Trials? Brace yourself, you've got a trial coming....oh no, there now, that wasn't too bad at all.....quick and easy!! Not so fast, though. We all know that isn't always the case.....how many trials have you had that were quick and easy....blink of an eye pain and just enough to make you wince....but back on track! Who can't embrace easy? ....if we could get by with quick and easy we would.....No the Lord isn't after causing you to live in constant pain and agony. Nor is He interested in giving you goose bumps and sending you into cartwheels...He is about teaching us ...
I prayed a specific prayer last Friday night...and within 24 hours I had my answer....quick, yes...easy, yes. Then there is this other prayer request I've been seeking the Lord on for quite a while...years to be honest and the answer has been "wait." There's nothing quick or easy about it.....but it's the answer God has given.....so I live with the "wait".....who wants to wait? Quick and easy......not always. Everything has a time table to it...even quick and easy has a process......we just aren't part of it.....think about it. That fast-food was partially prepared long before you drove up to the window....it came to the store frozen, but somewhere it had to be processed....and in a place of waiting....freezer, in this case. But you get my point.
Whatever God has for you, whether it comes almost as quickly as you breathed the prayer or if it takes a seemingly gigantic detour to come your way.....we have no say in the speed in which it comes. Everything doesn't require years to obtain...but know this, when God puts the brakes on quick and easy, He knows why you have to wait. Time sometimes brings out the worst in us....I remember a summer when I was in College. I needed a job. I applied all over but couldn't land a thing. I'd been praying but the longer it took, the angrier I became. Didn't God know I needed a job, NOW!! I'd applied at one last store as a cashier. The interview went well and they said it was pretty much a done deal. They'd call me. So I waited. And waited. And waited. Finally, I was so angry that they'd let me down, I pitched a fit! Lord You don't love me anymore....I did all I could and I have nothing. And did I weep. I think I cried over old things and new....I was devastated...I gave it over to the Lord and He left me hanging!!
The phone rang. It was for me. It was the manager at the store I'd interviewed at for a cashier's job. They called and said they were sorry they didn't get me before....they'd been trying to reach me for the past week. They couldn't reach me because in my haste, I'd transposed my phone number. They looked it up in the phone book to tell me I was hired! Now you know I felt so ashamed of myself....here it was the Lord had blessed me with a job but I didn't know it......it wasn't quick and easy, so I felt God had let me down.
Sometimes God allows things to slow down so we can see ourselves....had that job come through quickly, I would never have known that I had potential to be a spiritual brat! Quick and easy, huh? Not so fast!!
And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom. 31) And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright. 32) And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? (Genesis 25:30-32 KJV)
In the Master's Service,
Pastor Michele D. Turner
Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries, Inc.
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Matt 11:28-29 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
