There is a conversation that I am hearing. It is one that is going on in the hearts and minds of people all over. It seems rational on one hand, but the whispering is contrary to what we should know to be truth. The conversation goes something like this:

“No one can relate to me. My circumstance is unique and God has bigger fish to fry. The details of my life are inconsequential to God.”

Indulging in this type of internal conversation is a device of your mind to help you make sense of something you were never meant to completely control.

Wait a minute… am I saying that you shouldn’t be in complete control?

Not only am I saying it… you aren’t! And if you are truthful with yourself, you KNOW you aren’t. You may want to be in control, and you may try to control everything and everyone around you. Truth be told, you are either already aware, or are on your way to learning, that there are and will be circumstances beyond your control.

Your response will define you.

So the question now is, “How can God care about my situation and how do I know that He does?”

I want to share a personal story from about five years ago. It details how I came about the verse I am going to give you.

During a meeting with my good friend, Gary Crawford, I believed God was asking that I give up taking any sort of medicine. Let me be clear here, I don’t believe there is anything wrong with you taking medicine. Unless, you get a direction from God not to do so. Also, I don’t believe God was even asking Gary to make the same commitment. What I do believe is that I felt the nudge of the Holy Spirit to put away all medicine from my body. I had been on a certain medication for several years for allergies. I was additionally pretty quick to an aspirin, pain-killer, cough medicine, Nyquil, etc., too. For reasons only known to my Maker, I was to layoff and rely on Him.

All went pretty well and I was feeling good about the decision. No allergic reactions to weather changes and Texas ‘stuff-in-the-air’, no headaches or muscle pains. But then, the Holiday season came.

Each year, for the previous five years, around Christmas, somehow I ended up with an upper respiratory infection. In fact, the previous year, my Doctor told me he expected to see me that week, that I had been there every year about that time. So, this year although in faith, I anticipated perfect health, here I was slammed with the same thing. As I had successfully during other weak moments where I was tempted to medicate, I read in the Bible as my only relief. It had done the trick every time before, but this time it was different.

Day after day, I suffered with this painful congestion, losing my voice, unable to sleep, finally wondering had I really heard from God to layoff the meds, or just invented it someway. After the fifth day; it was about 2:00 AM, I got up and went to the medicine cabinet. My chest felt like it was full of bricks. I dumped two Mucinex tablets into my palm and poured a big glass of water.

Sitting down on the sofa with the pills still in my hand, I prayed. “God, I don’t even have the energy to seek you with all my heart. I don’t know where to look in your Word. I feel abandoned. I must have failed somehow and You have left my presence. I must hear from You or I am going to get relief by taking this medicine.”

I put my thumb into the Bible in hopes of a reply. What I read struck me silent. My blurry eyes instantly cleared up as the Words sunk into my spirit:

Isaiah 49:15
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even she may forget, yet I will not forget you.”

I will never forget the impact those Words had on me at that moment. I put the pills on the coffee table and drank the full glass of water with my heart full of gladness. I woke up the next morning completely healed and have celebrated four Christmas seasons since then with no relapse of this dreaded congestion.

Isaiah 54:10 goes even deeper, “The mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,’ says the LORD, who has compassion on you”

Look at these Words from our Lord, Jesus in John 10:28-29
“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand”?

All of this would be counted null and void if ONE child of God should ever be left alone. How could we place any value on God’s honor, His power, His grace, His covenant, His GUARANTEE, if any of those that Christ has died for and who have put their trust in Him, should be thrown away?

Our God has demonstrated and voiced His love and concern for us… it is time for US to allow the exchange He has offered…

Here is my question: Are YOU ready to participate in the best deal that has ever been offered to mankind?

Let’s face it, you have made at least one mistake in your life. Jesus has a ZERO in his ‘mistake column’. His FREE offer is to give you the reward for His life, merely for the understanding and acknowledgment that He took on the penalty for your mistake-filled life. What an amazing offer.

Now is your opportunity: Seriously, are you ready to participate in the best deal that has ever been offered to mankind?

The Response Will Define You.

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