Your Moment at the Well
The Lord’s insight. Your faith and your belief will bring you understanding that cannot be understood.
Daniel 3:18: “But if not, let be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”
Hebrews 11:3: “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of the things which are visible.”
Three Jewish men had defied an order of the king to worship the king’s god. The penalty was death by being thrown into a hot furnace. When the king mocked them by asking who would deliver them from his hands, they did not respond to him.
They said God, Whom they served was able to deliver them, but even if He did not, they would not worship any other god. I wonder if we would choose to remain faithful even if the Lord does not answer our prayers the way we want? We need faithful understanding even if we do not understand our circumstances.
Would you still choose to serve the Lord if He chooses not to heal you or someone you love, if He chooses not to move your mountain, if He does not restore you when you have been accused or condemned, if He seems silent and you don’t hear His voice in your life? Will you still choose to serve Him?
It is by faithful understanding that we can come to understand the impossible. Hebrews is telling us we may not understand the thing we face but our faith brings to us the understanding we need to stay strong in our belief and in our trust.
Sometimes we don’t get the things we want because the Lord wants us to understand the power of faithful understanding. Your faith doesn’t need to see what you ask for, it needs to trust and keep praying a prayer of faith so that the miracle of faith is made visible through the presence of what seems impossible.
So, stand on Lord and on His Word. Even if your circumstances do not change, remember He promises never to leave you or to forsake you. Do you have faith like those young men in Daniel? Will you choose to believe what He can do even if He does nothing?
After they were thrown into the furnace, the king went to see what happened to them. He looked into the furnace and saw four figures – one of them he said – was like the Son of God. The king couldn’t understand what he saw. How could he know what the Son of God looked like?
When it is hard to see or to understand how to get through what we face, our response should be to wait for the miracle of faithful understanding. When it seems like things will overtake you, pray and keep moving ahead knowing that things may not change but that which does not change for you will not change your faith.
Trust the Lord no matter what. Trust Him when you cannot see. Trust Him when you are accused. Trust Him when you are weaker than the things that come at you.
Learn to stand strong in your faith. Scripture tells us to pray always and to ask the Lord for the things we want. Let’s make sure we do that. But when it seems like we cannot see a way out of what we face or we won’t get the miracle we need, stand strong and wait. When the impossible seems impossible, the Lord will give you the unimaginable understanding to keep moving you on.
Lord I may not understand what is happening, but I still trust You. You are still working. You are still mightier than anything. You are still there in my darkest moments so I will send this prayer of faith into the dark because You still see what I cannot see. You are the second Man in the circumstances where I feel I’m all alone.
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