Jehovah God is an awesome God; he is majestic in his power, excellent in his love and perfect in his wisdom. As impressive as this statement sounds, it is a total understatement; for Jehovah is perfect in every way. The God of whom I speaks is the omnipotent God, wherein lies the source of everything; he is the one from whom every breath, every material thing, every shadow, everything living, everything dead, everything animate, everything inanimate, every thought, every shed of wisdom is derived. In other words, there is nothing that existed and exists that was not derived from and is being sustain because by Jehovah’s awesome power.
Jehovah is not a foolish God, he is not a haphazard God, Jehovah is a God of purpose, he is a God with a plan and that plan is to reclaim his lost creation. Hence the reason, everything Jehovah does is methodical, calculated and is done with the view of the big picture, which is; the salvation of all man kind. Jehovah and his son Jesus Christ is on a planed mission to ensure that each person get the opportunity to reclaim what is rightfully their.
It is important to note, this is serious business and Jehovah or his son is not taking anything for granted. He did not withhold his son from being subject to the embarrassment, humiliation, the suffering and the death of a common criminal. What was worst was the fact that he (Jesus Christ) met such, embarrassment, humiliation, suffering and death at the hands of those he came to save: me and you. 1 Cor. 7: 23-24- Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men. Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God. Jehovah will not hold us blameless if we choose to reject his love and his effort to secure our salvation; all who reject his love will suffer the full consequence of their sins.
We must come to understand because of this, Jehovah will not do for us; that which he has equipped us to do for ourselves. When you consider what is at stake and what Jehovah objectives are, he will never do for us what he has equipped us to do for ourselves. Jehovah have blessed us with many things, he blessed us with strength, health, materials, good friends, courage, faith, but the most important of all, Jehovah has blessed us with his wisdom. 1Corintians 1: 25- Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Such wisdom must be use to aid us in a closer relationship to him, for our own and the protection of our family, to avoid pitfalls and any stumbling block the devil and his imps may strategically place in our path but most important that we be equipped to accept his salvation.
So because Jehovah is in the process of equipping us to re-inherit his kingdom and because of the consequence we will be confronted with if we fail; there is no time for sports, games, child’s play or such the like.
When we utilizes the gifts Jehovah have blessed us with and we are still unable to accomplish his will, it is then Jehovah steps in and take control, it is then he add his strength to our weakness and when the omnipotent Jehovah and frail man join force together we forge a perfect unity in securing my salvation. 2 Corinthians 12:9-And he said unto me, my grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Should we deny ourselves the opportunity to properly manage and utilize the gift Jehovah has given to us? If we do, we will remain in our state of helplessness. For Jehovah to do for us what we are capable of doing for ourselves will not accomplish what he wants to accomplish in our lives. Such action preformed by Jehovah will not aid to build or strengthen our faith, it will not seek to build or prepare our character, for heaven.
Have you ever take time to think of what would have happen;
If Moses had fail or refused to stretch out his rod over the red sea? The Red Sea would not have parted, the children of Israel would not have passed over to safety and they would have died at the sword of Pharaoh.
What would have happened to the woman with the issue of blood, did not press through the crowd and touch the helm of Jesus’ garment? She would have suffered from her illness until she dies.
What would have happened of Noah did not build the ark? All of the inhabitants or the world would have been wiped out.
What would have happen if the people did not roll away the stone from Lazarus’ tomb as Jesus requested? Lazarus would have never been raised from the dead.
What would have happen if the little boy did not give his three fish and five loafs to Jesus? Men and woman would have fainted from hunger.
What would have happen if the cripple man at the well beautiful did not believe? He would have remained in his state of helplessness until he died.
What would have happen if lot did not use his compassion? He would have been destroyed with the citizen of Sodom and Gomarrha.
What would have happened if Job did not practice patience and endurance in the face of torment? He would have curse God and die as his wife recommended.
What would have happened if the Hebrew boys partook of the Kings meet? Their wisdom would have wane and they would have forfeited the opportunity to represent Jehovah and to be elevated to the lofty position of power they were placed in.- What would have happened if Davis the humble Sheppard, who was still in his youth did not take up the challenge to face, and kill Goliath? David and his people would have taken captive and would have been exploited at the oppressive hands of the philistines, thus causing Jehovah to be shamed by the infidels.
We all have seen what happens when we don’t use that which Jehovah has blessed us with.
We saw Sampson when he fail to use the wisdom that Jehovah had blessed him with; he lost his supernatural powers, was taken into the custody by his enemies, had his eyes poked out and he was mocked.
When Eli Jehovah’s priest did not use his God given wisdom to correct his children; he suffered the grief of death when his dishonest sons died at the will of Jehovah.
The children of Israel who was blessed with the honor to be the children of Jehovah, fail to use their blessing; they were taken into captivity over and over again and suffered the indignity of being slaves.
Dut. 22: 22-24 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. I will heap mischief upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
It is important for us to understand; with such at stake and the short time with which we have to accomplish that which must be done, Jehovah cannot, I say again; Jehovah cannot afford to play the kind of foolish and childish game we very often choose to play; his gift is to expensive, the high price we maybe required to play for our sins if we forfeits his gift; its too valuable, the price that Jehovah paid (the life of his son Jesus Christ); too time consuming, almost six thousand years of Jehovah’s time has been invested in man’s salvation. It is because of the seriousness and importance of what is at stake, that Jehovah, the all wise God, is not willing to play with our salvation and neither should we.
On the flip side the consequences of losing out on our salvation will pain Jehovah so much and it will pain us far more than our weak, frail, pathetic human mind can ever comprehend. 2 Peter 2: 4-6 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.
It is because of these simple yet complex facts that Jehovah will not, do for us what ha has equipped us to do for ourselves.
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