I both like and use little quips. But you must be careful you do not equate them with the scriptures. Many have Bible principles, but many of them do not. One proverbial saying we use falls into this latter category: “Time stands still for no one.” You would have had a difficult time convincing Joshua of this.
“Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day… Sun, stand thou still…and the sun stood still… So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man.”
Someone may ask, “How do you explain such a thing?” My answer is, “You can’t explain a miracle, else it would not be a miracle.” It is not important to know the “how” of the miraculous, but to believe in the “fact” of it. The God who will one day say, “Time shall be no more,” has no difficulty in stopping the clock for one of His elect.
The practical teaching of this story is that God will give the necessary time to his child to finish the job He has entrusted him or her with, even if it takes a miracle to accomplish it. When things get to moving too fast for you, He will bring things to a stand still. No sooner did Joshua ask, than it was done. And so it is with those fulfilling His Will.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones was stricken with cancer toward the end of his ministry. He called his family together and asked them to pray God would stay His hand till he was finished with a couple of manuscripts for books. God did just that. Then the dear man of God requested his loved ones to cease their intercession on his behalf.
God says through Isaiah, “Concerning the work of My Hands command ye me.” And Joshua did just that.
No comments:
Post a Comment