Can GOD Count on You?
Luke 12: 42 The LORD answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time?
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We often praise GOD for HIS faithfulness. We're thankful that we can always count on HIM to be there for us. But we rarely consider the fact that HE needs us to be faithful and obedient to HIS commands too.
It's true. GOD needs people HE can count on. HE needs faithful and wise stewards HE can trust over HIS household. In this final hour, HE needs faithful followers to team up with, to manifest HIMSELF in the earth more than ever before.
You may say "Oh Victor, GOD doesn't need me!"
Yes, I assure you! GOD does. Ever since the Creation, when HE gave man dominion over the earth, (Gen. 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”) HE needed people to work with HIM to get HIS will done here (Ps. 8:6 YOU made them rulers over the works of YOUR hands; YOU put everything under their feet). You can see that all through the Bible. When the children of Israel were in bondage in Egypt and GOD wanted to lead them out, HE teamed up with a man, Moses, to get the job done. Moses' responsibility was to stretch out his hand in the earth and command the will of GOD to be done. Cross references:
1.Psalm 8:6 : S Ge 1:28
2.Psalm 8:6 : S Job 10:3; Ps 19:1; 102:25; 145:10; Isa 26:12; 29:23; 45:11; Heb 1:10
3.Psalm 8:6 : S 1Ki 5:3; 1Co 15:25, 27*; Eph 1:22; Heb 2:6-8*
Why did GOD choose Moses? Because HE needed someone who was faithful and obedient would dare to act on HIS WORD. HE needed someone HE could count on, and HE knew Moses was that kind of man.
Psalm 103:7 says, "GOD made known HIS ways unto Moses, HIS acts unto the children of Israel." If Moses hadn't been faithful to know GOD's ways, the children of Israel would never have seen GOD's miraculous acts!
GOD needs you just as HE needed Moses. HE needs you to be faithful and alert to spiritual things. HE needs you to be someone HE can trust to know HIS WORD and be obedient to it. HE needs you to be a steward who will stretch out his hand like Moses did so that HE can perform signs and wonders before the people.
Will you be faithful to GOD? It's a decision you have to make. No one can do it for you. Right now, commit yourself to be that wise and faithful servant. Say in your heart and with your mouth, "GOD, YOU can count on me."
Scripture Study: Psalm 105:23-45
23 Then Israel entered Egypt;
Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
24 The LORD made HIS people very fruitful;
HE made them too numerous for their foes,
25 whose hearts HE turned to hate HIS people,
to conspire against HIS servants.
26 HE sent Moses HIS servant,
and Aaron, whom HE had chosen.
27 They performed HIS signs among them,
HIS wonders in the land of Ham.
28 HE sent darkness and made the land dark—
for had they not rebelled against HIS words?
29 HE turned their waters into blood,
causing their fish to die.
30 Their land teemed with frogs,
which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
31 HE spoke, and there came swarms of flies,
and gnats throughout their country.
32 HE turned their rain into hail,
with lightning throughout their land;
33 HE struck down their vines and fig trees
and shattered the trees of their country.
34 HE spoke, and the locusts came,
grasshoppers without number;
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
ate up the produce of their soil.
36 Then HE struck down all the firstborn in their land,
the first fruits of all their manhood.
37 HE brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,
and from among their tribes no one faltered.
38 Egypt was glad when they left,
because dread of Israel had fallen on them.
39 HE spread out a cloud as a covering,
and a fire to give light at night.
40 They asked, and he brought them quail;
HE fed them well with the bread of heaven.
41 HE opened the rock, and water gushed out;
it flowed like a river in the desert.
42 For HE remembered HIS holy promise
given to HIS servant Abraham.
43 HE brought out HIS people with rejoicing,
HIS chosen ones with shouts of joy;
44 HE gave them the lands of the nations,
and they fell heir to what others had toiled for—
45 that they might keep HIS precepts
and observe HIS laws.
Praise the LORD. Amen!