“Our God, you are the great God, the awesome, powerful soldier! You are kind and loyal.
You keep your agreement. We have had many troubles, and our troubles are important to you. Bad things happened to all our people, and to our kings and leaders, and to our priests and prophets. Those terrible things have happened from the days of the king of Assyria until today! But God, you were right about everything that happened to us. You were right, and we were wrong.” (Nehemiah 9:32-33 Easy-To-Read Version)
Many times, our crisis, our critical and crushing conditions, and our cloudy day circumstances are experienced because of our own choice(s); because we decided to lean on our own understanding; because we opted not to trust and obey. So, don’t cry out to heaven in a loud emphatic voice that reaches the ear of God, saying, “Why! Why!” Don’t point the finger at God! Instead, borrow from the words extracted from Ezra’s prayer in the text above and make them personal: “But God you were right about everything that has happened to me. You were right and we I was wrong.”
Our compassionate and forgiving God, fellow believer, He will give you another chance to get it right if you repent and confess your sins. So, going forward, choose to do right. He has already shown us what is right in His word. Doing right, well let’s call it living a righteous life. Remember, “Don’t Point the Finger at God!” Have a great day at church this morning! Be blessed!
“Human, the Lord has told you what goodness is. This is what he wants from you:
Be fair to other people. Love kindness and loyalty and humbly obey your God.” (Micah 6:8 Easy-To-Read Version)
Committed to the climb,
Mark L. King