|
|
|
Weather:46°FFair |
Couldn’t God do more? This is not an arrogant question. This is the thesis of the God-seeker, believing that God has done and will do more than we think He might be doing right now.
The essence of prayer is seeking the Creator of the universe and petitioning Him to move in mighty power. The Lord declares, in Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know” (NKJV).
Obviously, there are some things we do not know, some things we have not seen, and God is waiting for us to seek Him for them.
We can live our lives on one of two paths. The first is to go our own way, to do our own thing, placing the outcome in our hands. The second path is to be a God-seeker, to live as righteous and holy as we possibly can, believing that the blessings of the Lord accompany those who obey Him (Deuteronomy 28:1-14).
We know the wicked prosper, but it is temporary (Psalm 73:1-18). Jesus said, in Matthew 5:45, “He (God) causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” This is the gracious benevolence of a loving God, but there is another level of God’s blessings available to the ones whose hearts are totally tuned to God.
Could God do more? We must believe that He can. We know He has. We read of the creation account in the Old Testament book of Genesis, chapters one and two: those six marvelous days when God spoke into existence everything we see in perfect order and stability.
We know God literally destroyed the nation of Egypt to release His people from cruel slavery and to establish the knowledge of the power of God all around the world.
We know God took the people of Israel and elevated them to be the most powerful and richest nation in the history of the world under the reign of King Solomon.
What about us today? If we limit our search to North America, we should be aware of our heritage of God’s mighty works. Before the United States was the United States, God moved across the colonies in the mid 1700’s in a great revival that literally changed the culture.
A revival can be defined as an extraordinary work of God. What happened in the mid 1700s was extraordinary.
Later in the early 19th century, God moved again in a great revival that did more to return people to righteousness and justice than at any other time before or since.
The great prayer revival in the mid 1800s swept thousands and thousands into the kingdom of God, and as a result, more churches were started in a shorter period of time than ever before.
If we step out of the boundaries of the United States and look east or west, we hear of new churches starting up in Africa, India, and Cambodia. There are a growing number of believers every day in China.
Where is God in America? Couldn’t He do more? The answer is an emphatic yes. That is why we must never give up. We must pray, we must go, and we must take a visible and vocal stand for God in the most unlikely places. The most unlikely place might not be a remote village in Africa; it might be an inner-city housing project or some poor neighborhood.
God can and wants to do more.