Saturday, February 2, 2008
Exodus 3:5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."
PRAY WITH BARE FEET . . . CONFIDENTLY
There's another comforting lesson we may take home from the Bible story of Moses and the burning bush. It relates to our prayer lives. When we come before the Lord with prayer requests in a spirit of humility, trusting His mercy to hear and help, we may do so expecting an answer. Our God won't turn us a deaf ear. Even though we, like Moses, are unworthy of the least of His mercies, He won't deny our prayers on that account but answer us in a way that is good and right.
How do we know this? Well, since our God kept His greatest promise: He sent His Son to earth in the fullness of time . . . Jesus carried through the plan of salvation to the end . . . He left the Mount of Transfiguration . . . walked resolutely to Jerusalem . . . endured the anguish of Gethsemane . . . suffered the agony of Calvary . . . to make the ultimate sacrifice for us . . . we're assured of His forgiving love and our eternal salvation. Therefore the incense of our prayers will surely waft its way heavenward as a sweet-smelling aroma in our God's nostrils. When we offer a prayer in time of sickness He will heal us or strengthen us to bear it. When we are suffering a stressful moment He will lead us out of it or graciously sustain us in the midst of it. In every time of need He will provide for us in His own good time and way. His promise to us (remember, He is 100% faithful to His Word!) is: "Call upon Me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you and you shall glorify Me" (Psalm 50:15). "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will opened to you" (Matthew 7:7). "No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).
All for Jesus' sake, His beloved Son, in whom He is well-pleased, in whom we have anchored our hopes.
