FRIDAY 3 MAY, 2013
THE GOD OF CHOICE
MEMORY VERSE:
No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:44
READ
John 6:43-44
Joh 6:43 Jesus
therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.
Joh 6:44 No man
can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise
him up at the last day.
MESSAGE
The God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of choice. He came to Abraham's extended
family and chose only him for a special purpose (Genesis 12:1). Before that
time, all we read about him was that he was the son of so and so. We never read
that he was holy or that he loved or served the Lord. God just chose him. God
did not choose Lot. Abraham came out of an idolatrous home yet God chose him.
Similarly, but for the fact that God is a God of choice, there was no way David
could ever have become a king. Unfortunately, today, many people think that
they got saved by their wisdom, common sense or ability. In John 6:44 we read
that it is the Father who pulls those who are saved to Himself. If you are
saved today, it is because the Father chose you for salvation, after all, it is
possible several people heard the same message that you heard, but they refused
to surrender to Jesus. A professor once said he gave his life to Christ in the
darkness, and that if the electricity company had not cut off power supply, he
would not have been able to profess Christ. God chooses who to save and who to
bless (Luke. 5:1-7).
Moreover, God is
also a God of promise. In Genesis 12:1-3, God asked Abraham to do three things
and thereafter He would do seven things. Abraham would have wondered what he
did to provoke such great blessing from God. He does not only make promises but
also fulfils them. There are many times men have disappointed us, not
necessarily because they planned to, but because what they were expecting never
got to their hands. Sometimes, it was a sickness that shook them to the point
of non performance. In Isaiah 41:10-13, He promises to help you in all areas of
your life – academic, financial, spiritual, marital,
etc. When He is about to help and somebody plans to obstruct Him, you will just
notice that the fellow has been uprooted. No matter how incredible His promises
are, just believe and they will surely come to pass.
ACTION POINT
Thank God for
choosing you. Ask that you will never do anything that will make Him to regret
choosing you.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR
Judges 5 – 8
Father, We Pray not to do anything that will make you regret your choice of us.
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