“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who vindicates me.” Psalm 57:2 NIV
There is a constant flow of course materials and methods guaranteed to build the church that I pastor. Some of the methods taught are okay, while others are just slick business techniques applied to the church. If the methods are in harmony with Scripture, we are generally free to use them. But here is the crucial issue, we must be very careful not to trust in any method, but to rely on the Lord so that He gets the glory. There are times when it is wrong to use any method, where we just need to wait on God to act on our behalf. On one occasion when David was being pursued by Saul, David and his men were in the inner part of a cave when Saul, not knowing they were in there, went into the cave to “cover his feet” (i.e. sit on the toilet). David’s men said, “David, the Lord has delivered your enemy into your hand. Go kill him!” David crept up and quietly cut a small piece off Saul’s robe. Even at that his conscience bothered him. His men thought he was crazy. “Why didn’t you kill him? God delivered him into your hands and you just cut off a piece of his robe!” But David said, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed . . .” (1 Samuel 24:6). David trusted that the Lord would remove Saul without David’s help. It would have been wrong in that situation for David to help God out by killing Saul, even though David knew that it was God’s will to depose Saul and give the throne to David. When is it okay to use human means and when is it wrong? The real issue is: Who will get the glory if I use these human means? We should rather err on the side of going light on methods and heavy on trusting God. Then God gets the glory.
PRAYER THOUGHT
Lord, may I err on the side of trusting Your way of doing things.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
Lord, may we rather err on the side of going light on human methods and heavy on trusting You, that that You will receive all the glory and honour. AMEN
INTERNATIONAL BIBLE READING ASSOCIATION (IBRA)
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