BREAD OR CRUMBS? –
Monday May 29th 2017
Memorise; Remove far
from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food
convenient for me. Proverbs 30:8
Read: Proverbs 30:7-9
(King James Version)
7 Two things have I required of thee;
deny me them not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies:
give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
9 Lest I be full, and deny thee, and
say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of
my God in vain.
Bible in one year: Acts
16-17, Jeremiah 38:1-13, Hymn: Sing hymn 10
MESSAGE:
What you get from
God depends on how contented or dissatisfied you are. While some people ask
nothing from the Almighty God who has all things and who can do all things,
some others ask for crumbs. Your desire and request go a long way in
determining what you get in life. In Matthew
15:21-28, when the woman whose daughter was
tormented by demons met the Lord, all she asked for was crumbs:
“And she said,
Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’
table.”
Matthew 15:27
Even today, after
Jesus had said that the children of the Kingdom are meant to eat at God’s
table, many of these children still prefer the crumbs that fall from the
Master’s table (Luke 12:32, Matthew
15:26). Where is your focus: the table or the crumbs
Similarly, there is
a correlation between your desire and your trust in God. If you really have
faith in God, you will be able to ask big. The Bible says those who know their
God shall do exploits (Daniel 11:32).
In other words, when you know little or nothing about God, when asked to make a
request, you will be afraid of asking for too much, and so you will be confined
to asking for so little. Monday 29 May 2017 Open Heavens Daily Reflection
2017:-Bread or Crumbs? However, when you know how inexhaustible the
resources of God are, it will stir up courage in your heart to ask for big,
great and impossible things. Open Heavens Reflection 29 May 2017. Therefore, if
you are asking for a used car, a tiny rented apartment or a job that can barely
take you away from starvation, it is very possible that you do not know or
trust God enough. In today’s Bible reading, Agur made a very humble request. He
asked for neither poverty nor wealth. He feared poverty, lest he might be
tempted to steal; and he also feared wealth, lest he deny God. Just enough was
that he asked for. Using the children of Israel as a model of God’s plan for
your life, you will observe that God took them from the wilderness, where they
had Manna that was just enough for each day, to a land flowing with milk and
honey, where they had more than enough (Exodus 16:15-19, Deuteronomy
6:10-11, Joshua
5:12). Just enough might mean not having reserves to
take care of emergencies. That means, in an emergency, you may be forced to go
cap in hand borrowing. Are you asking but asking for too little? How can your
joy be full if all you have is little? Are you asking for little in
consideration of others who are also asking God for the same things? You can
never exhaust God’s resources. Ask big and stop limiting yourself!
Action Point
Ask God for something
really big that only He can do for you.
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