Our Master

In yesterday’s mediation, when asked who Abraham’s God was, we noted who He was in terms of what He had given to His servant Abraham. It was noted that He was Abraham’s Lord and Master, who had blessed him in every way. We were then challenged to think about our Lord and Master.

Abraham was now old and well advanced in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way. Genesis 24: 1. Now let me ask you three relevant and highly pertinent questions, which you will answer before God.

1.    Is God your Lord and Master?

2.    Has He blessed you in every way?

3.    Are you still daring to do and to be for Him? 

Your response is either, Yes, or it is No. Think seriously about it! No mixed answers are possible, for with God there is daring and without Him there is no daring. Faith in God dares! Let’s have a more in-depth and frank look at Abraham, as he personifies this unmovable and undeniable characteristic of faith.

His daring is being evidenced as an old man; not as a young man.

O servant of God, who has grown old in years, rise up and still dare for your God, for His Spirit in you never ever grows old. Do you know? Have you not heard? But you remain the same and your years will never end. Psalm 102: 27. However you care to interpret these words, I take this prayer of the Psalmist as giving Almighty God the exclusive and single right and characteristic, the Only One who can never grow old.

His daring is as a physically weak man; not as a physically strong man.

O servant of God, who has grown physically weak over the years, sit up and still dare for your God, for His Spirit in you never ever grows weak over the years. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. Isaiah 40: 28. Whichever way you take this verse of Scripture, I unequivocally receive it as this. Our God never grows old so that it is impossible for Him to grow old in us.

His daring is as an aged man who is highly dependent on others; not as a capable and independent person. 

O servant of God who, because of physical decline, must depend on others, wise up and still dare for your God, for His Spirit in you is fully capable and does not depend on any human help whatsoever. Paul, in addressing the Athenians, a group of people totally ignorant about the One true God, tells them, in no uncertain terms that Sovereign God is not like their gods. The God who is his Lord and Master, the God who is Creator of all, is Singular, Supreme and Self-sufficient in Himself.  He is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. Acts 17: 25. Howsoever you choose to interpret this, I stand resolved that God does not depend on humans, or any of His creation for that matter, to be God and function as God.

What excuses then, do you and I have this day?

Father, in whatsoever state I am, I acknowledge that You have never left me, neither have You forsaken me. It is You and You alone, O God, who have given me life and breath and still give me life and breath; You and You alone who have blessed me in every way; You and You alone who have brought me to this hour in time. Keep me daring in You, through Your gracious, Holy Spirit, who is ever-present and always ever-working in us all. Overlook our sins, O God and remember them no more, for we have come back to our senses and acknowledge, with humbled, sorrowful hearts, the utter folly of our ways. Thank You for who You are to us. Thank You for forgiveness and for refreshment. Amen!