INTRODUCTION
I believe that God interacts with His people on a daily basis. He desires to do that. Sure, we should see Him when we open our eyes, or dress ourselves, when we arrive at our destinations safely, and greet our family & friends. Yes, these are miracles we take for granted and we SHOULD give thanks to God for them. However, if at the end of the day, we cannot pinpoint a certain moment where there was a Yeshua-experience just for us, we have missed Him. I am going to start a series in which I detail those Yeshua Moments in my life and I hope you do the same. Let’s practice His presence. Let’s consciously choose to see Him in everything, everywhere! Here’s the point–”The more we focus on what He IS doing, the more of that He will do in our lives. If we focus on what He is NOT doing, He will NOT do anything–and it is not that He is Not doing anything, but that is all that you will see.” So let’s practice the presence of our God for the next 30 days and record them so that our spirits can be alive in Him. Let’s help to build one another’s faith and awaken our spiritual pores to the living Presence of our Abba. Come on! Let’s walk with the Father!
Day 23 — “How Did They Know?”
During our Winter Storm reclusiveness, I watched a movie that my husband brought home from the library. He knew I would enjoy it — TRUE WOMEN. It was an epic saga of strong, southern pioneer women who withstood all the ravages of the South — the Civil War, dying sons and husbands, stillborn children, cholera, women’s suffrage, Indian Wars, bigotry, slavery, etc… During one scene, Negro slaves are working in the fields, and as they worked, they sang in melodious chords of rich harmonies — “Can’t wait to get to heaven. There is so slavery in heaven.” They sang this as they picked the cotton, laboring in the hot sun.
My question was “how did they know?” Slavery was all that most of them knew of life, being 2nd and third generations of African slaves. How did they know there was a better life somewhere? How did they know that God would want them in heaven, not as slaves, but as His sons and daughters?
They knew something that their slavemasters did not. Even as one southerner said, “Negroes are not fit to be free. They only know how to be slaves.” That’s what the enemy tells us every day! But let’s declare our freedom in Yeshua. We serve a God who said, “I no longer call you servants, but friends!” HALLELUJAH! And there is something in each of us that calls us to that higher standard of living and existing! Let’s believe what God says — despite what we see! Let’s believe it, pursue it, and live it!
Father, thank you for putting something in us that speaks louder than the voices that yell at us every day! Thank you that our spirits bear witness with your Spirit! Help us to follow Your voice and trust You! Amen.
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