What Now?
I know that many of you are disappointed and concerned over the national election results. You were praying for a different direction. It didn’t happen. Now what?
Let me remind you of an incident in the life of King David. Perhaps you recall how the child born out of the adulterous relationship between him and Bathsheba was sick. Samuel had confronted David about his sin and told him that the child would die. Yet, David faithfully prayed and fasted to the point that his subjects were concerned for his health. Then the child died and they were even more afraid that he would be so overtaken in grief that he might harm himself. David, however, received the news, took a bath, put on clean clothes and some cologne, and got back to work.
When his subjects asked him why he acted that way, he told them, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” IE, God’s in charge and our duty is to serve Him. (2 Sa 12:22-23)
We, too, have prayed. Now we must get to work, doing what we have always been called to do; carry out the Great Commission. As we do that, there is a strategic directive which applies now more than ever; “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.” (1 Ti 2:1-3)
The environment in which we work often changes, but the work we are called to do remains the same!
Let me remind you of an incident in the life of King David. Perhaps you recall how the child born out of the adulterous relationship between him and Bathsheba was sick. Samuel had confronted David about his sin and told him that the child would die. Yet, David faithfully prayed and fasted to the point that his subjects were concerned for his health. Then the child died and they were even more afraid that he would be so overtaken in grief that he might harm himself. David, however, received the news, took a bath, put on clean clothes and some cologne, and got back to work.
When his subjects asked him why he acted that way, he told them, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept; for I said, ‘Who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me, that the child may live?’ But now he is dead; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.” IE, God’s in charge and our duty is to serve Him. (2 Sa 12:22-23)
We, too, have prayed. Now we must get to work, doing what we have always been called to do; carry out the Great Commission. As we do that, there is a strategic directive which applies now more than ever; “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior.” (1 Ti 2:1-3)
The environment in which we work often changes, but the work we are called to do remains the same!
1 Comments:
As I take part in my son's wedding I was thinking of what I might say.Kind of a "Now What", after such a serious and sacred ceremony.
A couple things :
1. Obey God ( Do what God says to do in his word)
2. Trust Him
I leave you with a quote that says it better than I can :
I said to the man at the Gate of the Year, “Give me a light that I may walk Safely into the unknown.
”He said to me, “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand in the hand of God,and it shall be to you better than the light, and safer than the known.”
From the Christmas Eve address delivered by King George VI to the British Commonwealth during the difficult days for Britain and the world following World War II.
Quoted by: Ravi Zacharias in Can man Live Without God
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