Trapped in debt - Part 3

Read part 1 - http://seeklifepurpose.blogspot.com/2009/05/trapped-in-debt-part-1.html
Read part 2 - http://seeklifepurpose.blogspot.com/2009/05/trapped-in-debt-part-2.html

In the last post we saw that God has to shake something that we think as the most valuable possession in life, so that He could get us back to turn to Him. Abraham was slowly losing focus on God after the birth of Isaac. He started to consider Isaac as the most precious thing for him. It is a natural human tendency to consider something very valuable when it was given after a very long wait. Abraham had to wait for a very long time to get Isaac. But, God wants us to give Him the first preference all the time. He tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice Isaac.

Abraham was a righteous man. He obeyed God instantly. He believed that God could raise Isaac from the dead. He decided to sacrifice Isaac for God. God is so loving that He was moved by the obedience of Abraham. He stopped him from sacrificing his son, and blessed him. We believe that this incident would have made Abraham to put God in the first place all throughout his life.

Jacob too was a man who wanted to grab many things. But God had to shake him by touching his hip and dislocating him. He limped and walked, and it is during this time of weakness that he realized the need for God. He said "Lord I will not leave you unless bless me". God blessed him and thereafter he depended on God for everything in his life.

God had to take Moses out from the pleasures and honors of Egypt and put him in the wilderness so that he would depend only on God. He had everything in Egypt. Money, fame, education, luxury and everything were there in Egypt. It was the most powerful nation at that time. Maybe, Moses would not have known God intimately had he not been taken out of the luxury of Egypt. It is in the wilderness, when he was weak, he found God. He was turned into one of the greatest leaders the history has ever known after he surrendered himself totally to God.

The tower of Babel had to be destroyed by God and the language of people needed to be scattered so that they understood the power of God.Naaman had to be afflicted with leprosy so that he turned to God. Jonah had to be swallowed by a fish when he went to Darshish instead of going to Nineveh as God had told him. It was inside the belly of the fish that he learnt his lesson to obey and trust God.

In the Bible we find at many places that people turned to God when all the treasures of the world that they had put their trust were shaken by God. Today, during this period of recession when our mind is so disturbed with the fear of losing jobs or securities, God wants us to trust Him. May be He is shaking us as He did with great people of the Bible.He assures us that if we put our trust in Him and obey Him, no matter what the situation is, God would deliver us out of it.

Whatever we need to do is very simple. We need to ask Jesus Christ to come into our hearts and surrender ourselves to Him. He will wipe away all our debts. We would see His miracles in our lives. We need to trust God above anything else.

The chorus of a very popular christian song goes like this
"Trust and obey, for there’s no other way
To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."

There is only one security that we can trust in this world. It is God.