Saturday 15 Dec 2012

Saturday Reading: Romans 9:15-24

Key Verse: Romans 9:15
15  For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Devotion:
Why is it that man should think that God’s Word would change, that is should ever change? God has given us the same message from the very beginning, that He alone is God and that we are His creation. He has told us that He has all power and that what He says goes! He has given us many reasons to follow Him, to believe in Him and to trust in Him. He has also given us many reasons to fear Him by showing us His great power. And yet we like to think that this law that has been written down, the law that has not changed from the beginning, should change just for us!

God has told us from the beginning that He has chosen to do what He has done. It was His choice to create the world and to create man. It was His choice to love us from the beginning. But it is also His choice to show us the punishment that we deserve when we do not listen. It is His choice to keep His own Word and show us that we can depend on Him no matter what. It is His choice to show mercy to those that do not seem to deserve it – that is His grace, His choice.

Man cannot come up against God and change what God has set in motion. Nothing we do can change God. Nothing we choose will guide God. Instead it is the other way round. God is our guide and we should be following Him. God is all powerful and we should know that He can do anything. God has told us what is going to happen and we need to accept that this is what will happen – just because God has said so! If He has the power to speak the world into existence, do you not realise that He has the power to speak anything?

Why does God choose whom He chooses? Why does God seemingly ignore some? Our is not to ask why God has chosen what he has chosen but to ask Are we willing to accept His will and work with Him? God chose to create the world in which we live; should we then try and create a new world for ourselves because we want to? Well, good luck on that one! God has shown us His great power so we can understand that not only did He do this all, but that He has chosen to do it for us and with us because he wants to show us His love toward us.

Points to Ponder:
Do you question other peoples ways?

Are you questioning God’s ways?