Theme: REPORT DON’T MURMUR
Memorise: Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against
them that fight against me. Psalm 35:1
Bible Text: Luke 18:1-8, Bible in one year: 1st Kings 11:1-12:15, Luke
3:23-4:13
One of the sins that God hates so much is the sin of murmuring. During
the mass exodus of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land, the reason
why God destroyed some of them was due to their incessant murmuring. They kept
on murmuring instead of discussing their problems with the One who has
severally demonstrated the capacity to solve them. A reoccurring scene in their
journey is described in Numbers 14:1-2. The consequence of this demonstration
of faithfulness in God was that He denied them the joy of making it to the
Promised Land. They all died in the wilderness, according to what they had said
against themselves while murmuring. We must be careful of what we use our mouth
to say in times of challenges (Numbers 14:28).
When confronted with the challenges of life, we should learn from our
Bible reading and our memory verse what our attitude should be. In our memory
verse, the Psalmist asked God to come to his aid against enemies that fought
against him. He chose the correct Ally for the battle of life he was confronted
with – the One whose Name is the Lord of hosts. He would rather report his
enemies to the Captain of his battle rather than murmur about them. When you
consider the end of David and the posthumous glory accorded him till date, you
will see a man whose Ally was the Almighty God. Also, the widow in the parable
of Jesus did not go to the house of the judge to murmur. She knew what she
wanted: that the judge should fight her cause and grant her justice. Nobody
knows what her adversary did to her; probably the adversary killed her husband
and took their properties away. We are not even told for how many days, weeks,
months or years she had been going to the judge for justice. But one thing we
know is that, she kept on saying to him. “Avenge me on my adversary” (Luke
18:3). The judge had no choice but to avenge her. Hear the Lord’s conclusion
from this parable in Luke 18:7-8a:
“And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry
day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will
avenge them speedily.”
This is so confronting and reassuring. I therefore urge you to
cultivate the habit of reporting your adversaries to your sure Ally: the
All-powerful God. Don’t engage in murmuring which you think you are praying. My
prayer for you is that the Great God of heaven will avenge you of your
adversaries this season, and you will know peace in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point: Father, You are the All-powerful One, arise and avenge me of all my
adversaries in Jesus Name.
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