Call
unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which
thou knowest not.
Jeremiah
33:3
Your
life will never be complete nor accomplish all that it can until you realize
that you must call on the Lord… It isn’t until you open your heart, mind and
soul unto the Lord that He can begin to impart His divine will and plan for
your life… This scripture speaks to the covenant that bonds us with the Lord;
He will answer as evident in the many storms we have been able to endure and
come through; however, the phone must ring in order for it to be answered and
this is the step that often times is missed… I often times here people quote
different scriptures about the saving power and grace that is our God, but do we
realize that His saving power will be idle until we allow it to be manifested
in our lives…? True, God has promised to never leave us nor forsake us, He has
promised to protect us from the fowler’s snare and be a lamp unto our feet and
a light unto our path… All these promises are real; however they will never
see fulfillment in one’s life unless they have faith which requires a
connection or call of total submission to the Lord… The book of Jeremiah
teaches that God promises to show us great and mighty things, Jesus said that
He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly… Until we walk
according to the will of God, until we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord
and Savior we are not living nor do we have abundant life… Jeremiah starts this
verse by saying, “Call unto me and I will answer thee…” The promises of
God can’t be fulfilled until you step up and call upon His name… Jesus says in
Matthew 11: 28-30, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I
will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
and my burden is light.” Notice we are promised rest in Jesus; however the
first thing that must be done is that we turn from our own path and “Come to
me…” We must call on the Lord to find strength, we must call unto the
Lord to find healing, and we must call unto the Lord to gain direction,
understanding and power… When we call on the Lord He will answer; however it
will be in ways “which thou knowest not…” We never know how someone so
battered down by life still can fight and stand tall, we never know how a
person dealing with financial hardships can climb from underneath their debt,
and we never know how relationships that seemed irreparable can be mended…
These are the mighty things that we know not, but that God can do and perform
for us when we call upon His name… We can agree with this verse in Jeremiah
knowing that God will answer, He will make a way out of now way, He will do the
mighty things that you thought were simply dreams, He will perform the very
works that you didn’t think were possible… Look at what this verse says;
Jeremiah records that God will show great and mighty things to us if we call
upon Him, (if you wondering why things in your household haven’t improved,
if you wondering why you are stuck in the same location, it’s because you
haven’t called on the Lord…) so many of us have been waiting for a sign
from God, waiting for Him to do a miraculous work in our lives so that we know
and feel his presences. God has not performed these miracles, nor given you
these signs because you have not called on His name! The bible records that the
Israelites were in bondage during the prophecy of Jeremiah, “they worship me
with their lips, but there hearts are far from me!” The Israelites had
fallen by the wayside and had a false confidence that everything would be okay.
I believe that often times we have a false confidence that everything in our
life will be okay. We have a false confidence that God is a bellhop and that He
is going to just show up and bless the situation and we will walk away
unharmed; however, on the contrary, God is simply waiting for you to say enough
is enough and call upon Him and adhere to His word! Nehemiah 1:9 says, “but
if you return to me (Call unto Him) and obey my commands, then even if
your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there
and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.”
God can’t
answer the phone unless you call!!!
BE BLESSED!!!
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