May This Be My Prayer

John Wesley’s prayer was this:  “I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you or laid aside for you, exalted for you or brought low for you; let me be full, let me be empty; let me have all things, let me have nothing; I freely and wholeheartedly yield all things to your pleasure and disposal.”

Big Task…Big God

It is so amazing that when you get yourself in the Word that God finds a way to have a word for you.  He did yesterday.  Actually He had two.  One was of great comfort to me and the othe convicted me greatly.  As I was making my way through Deuteronomy I came to Deuteronomy 20 and the title said, “Laws Concerning Warfare.”  Verse 1 says this: ¹ “When you go out to war against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and an army larger than your own, you shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”  God was real blunt with them.  When you come to an army that is bigger than yours, you SHALL not be afraid of them.  Wow, that is a command.  Why not be afraid?  Because the LORD YOUR GOD is with you.  God is enough for any army or task that you might be facing.  So don’t be afraid.

That is tough for me.  I want to be afraid.  I want to know that everything will be OK.  That is one reason I was a little excited about a job opportunity at Dell.  Well Dell fell through and I’m back to plan A.  Plan A is trust the Lord and keep doing what I’m doing.  The task before me is huge but my God is bigger.

Now here is where God convicted me.  Deuteronomy 20:8 says this:  “And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, ‘Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.’”  I must confess that if I’m down in out others know about it.  God told the Israelites that if any of the solidiers were fear and faintearted they were to be sent home because He didn’t want their belly aching to spread in the rest of the army.  We have other soldiers around us every day who are depending on you and me not being fearful and not being fainthearted.  They need the strength in us that we draw from the strength of God.  So NO Belly Aching.  Go face your day and fight.  You and I have a big God who is bigger than the task we face.