LET GO, TO LET GOD
"Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain". - Psalm 127:1
There are times we want to prove our point. We get so eager to display our knowledge to those watching. We boast about how knowledgeable and well learnt we are. There are times we want to prove to another that they are wrong and we are right, sometimes we raise our voices to prove we cannot be intimated by any one.
The scripture states in the book of Exodus when God called Moses, Moses said; "Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue."-Exodus 4:10. And the LORD replied in verse 11; "Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD? The point is, only God makes meaning in the heart of the listener not your exquisite eloquence or professional knowledge. Without God's intervention, it makes no meaning, people will listen but with no understanding.
It is written in Psalm 127:"Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain". The term 'except' means 'without me' everything is a waste of time. God sent Moses in the book of Exodus, on the rescue mission to save the Israelite from their oppressive masters, the Egyptians. But harden the heart of the Egyptian King, Pharaoh. Does this not startled you that though JEHOVAH sent Moses with convincing words and signs yet He harden the heart of Pharaoh for any of the miraculous signs to take any effect in his heart.
One important lessons in this text that I want to highlight for you is about divine sovereignty,the absolute sovereignty of God over all the affairs of men. God is sovereign, and therefore you can have no degree of success or achievement unless God allows it in the first place. Proverbs 21:31: "The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD." Our destiny is not really in our own hands. We are not the masters of our souls or the captains of our fate, and it is only a sinful arrogance that makes some men think otherwise.
Let us examine the life of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Christ went around spreading the message of His Father. He preached in Synagogues, healed the sick, preached to a large crowd. He spoke in parables and gave meanings to those parables but when the time came for Christ to be crucified, words ceased. We must understand that though he was innocent, he did not defend himself. He agreed to be crucified without a defense. This was a great man who had all the answers and would respond to every fair question and trial question. A man with great wisdom that supersedes human knowledge, yet said no word to defend himself when unjustly judged. Christ was silent not because they had any evidence against him, or because he had nothing to say but because the time to give up himself for the love of humanity had come. He acknowledged God's sovereignty in these words ;
"Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done."-Luke 22:42.
Jesus Christ set himself as an example for us to identify the time to speak and the time to let go and let God.
Furthermore, during his time of tribulation, Christ evanglised with his character not with words. Despite the ill treatment, HE said; "FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DOING"(Luke 23:34). He had compassion for us in pain and cried onto THE ELOHIM not to vent His anger on us. There are times we should let our character and not our words become the bible others need to read. The final stage of eveanglism no matter our professional knowledge in the gospel is when we become the message.
Shalom!
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