Morning Dew #68

God, my Promise

“I hear what you are saying but I look at my hands and they are empty. I need proof!” 

There is a tension between reality and promise— Abraham heard God’s promise to bring from him a great nation. But his wife was barren and the prospects were poor since they both were past child-bearing years. So could they trust God?

For us today the tension is between knowing that there is a God and believing that He has an interest in our circumstance. When in crisis we wonder, “Am I delusional. Is there a God who actually impacts the specifics of my life? What of my stalled career, my dysfunctional home-life, my health issues, my imminent financial disaster. . . . Can God, and does God actually business Himself with my minutia or am I just hoping that the “coincidences” of my life are His doing? 

Faith is the only way to know God. Hebrew 11: 1– “Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”  So this week, like Abraham, let’s earnestly put God to the test!

Dear Lord, here is my concern . . . . please take it and do for me what You see as best. Give me evidence that You care. Amen