MY FRIENDS, THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN CAN UNITE BUT ARE WE WILLING?

MY FRIENDS, THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN CAN UNITE BUT ARE WE WILLING?

God gives us His assignment. The divine and human join forces. “Man working in obedience to divine light given. If Saul had said, Lord, I am not at all inclined to follow Your specified directions to work out my own salvation, then should the Lord have let ten times the light shine upon Saul, it would have been useless. It is man’s work to cooperate with the divine. (E.G. White, Mind, Character, and Personality Vol. 2  P 757) In 1 Samuel 15, God, sends the king of Israel, Saul, on a mission.

“Attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all they have. Kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” But Saul was “unwilling to utterly destroy them.” He took their king alive and kept the best of the flocks,“ When Samuel confronts him about it. Saul response, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your word’s because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.

Now, therefore, please pardon my sin, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.” God was not having it, and Samuel tells Saul; “the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.” Then you have David the next king of Israel who commits adultery and murders the husband in an attempt to cover up her pregnancy. When Nathan confronts David, his response seems as sincere as Saul’s.

“Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Ps 151:1 (NKJV) My friends as a child of God, through our faith we must understand God knows our heart. He is all knowing, something our finite minds will never comprehend on this earth. But what we can comprehend, is, surely after such a heinous sin that David committed, he should have been rejected as king by God also.

But Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NKJV) tells us “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick; who can understand it?  I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” My friends, that text tells us our heart is deceitful and misleading and without Christ abiding in it, we can’t distinguish between good and evil.

And we begin to live within the grey areas of God’s law because the god of this world has blinded us to the fact there is darkness and there is the light of our Savior who gave it all for our salvation. My friends, let’s look within our heart and asked why would God give us a double portion of His blessing if our past actions say we are going to live our life according to our will, not Gods.

And we have no intentions of “forsaking all others” and allowing the divine and human to join forces for Gods glory and honor. Samson never lived up to God’s full potential and the same can be said about us. Yes, Samson is in the faith hall of Fame in Hebrews 11. But God’s plan and blessings for his life, if he would have stayed focus would have far exceeded anything he could have ever imagined.

So, when we look up at Christ second coming. will we be a Saul or Judas who squandered away their Salvation and now are asking the rocks to hide them, or a Samson and the thief on the cross who squandered God’s blessings away throughout their life but repented and allowed Christ to save them in the end, or David and Elijah who “forsaked all others” and allowed the divine and the Human to join forces most of their lives and God’s blessings were unsurmountable and always abounded in the Lord.