Have you longed for God to intervene in a certain circumstance in your life and had been waiting, crying and agonizing before God. But you only felt grieved, disappointed and frustrated at the lack of an answer and God's seeming silence.
Let me direct you to these words
"Dear brothers, I plead with you to give your bodies to God as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, this is your spiritual act of worship" (Romans 12:1).
While you are pleading with God for an answer to you circumstance, He had been pleading with you to live differently.
God was waiting for you to present your body as an act of worship to God. It could be
a physical habit in your life and you had not bothered.
about your harsh words and critical attitude,
anything else ??.
When God pleads with us to give Him ourselves as a living sacrifice, He expects us to act. Yet while we wait for His answer, we seem to believe our part is optional.
Are you worshiping Him by offering yourself to Him everyday for His purposes? When God works His purposes out in our life it will bring a fulfillment we never knew possible... because that's what He created us for! He waits for us.
Let us ask God to forgive us for the times when we have been praying yet not obeying. Let us thank Him for reminding us that He pleads with us and wants us to move ahead in our walk with Him. He has more in mind for us than just answering the cry of the circumstance in our lives. Today let us offer ourselves afresh to Him. We must ask God to show us the ways in which He wants us to adjust our habits, our thinking or our actions.
(0192) 26 June 2007