Messengers for a Worthy Cause

A spiritual insight to treasure and apply for daily living, is an unwavering awareness that God sees and does things differently from us. He makes it clear that His ways are not our ways. Isaiah 55:8-9 states:

“As the Heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

He is sovereign. The literal definition of sovereignty, means a supreme ruler; possessing a supreme or ultimate power. What that means is that we cannot challenge God for what He says and does; while He welcomes our inquiries and questions, know that He will always respond (if He so chooses) as He sees fit, as Job found out when he questioned God (Job 38-41).

What God’s sovereignty means for us, is that we must conform to His ways and will, and not Him to ours. One of the ways we do this, in submission and reverence, is by accepting what He says about us. Our flawed nature looks for human acknowledgement and recognition and unfortunately, we sometimes rely on this for our affirmation, rather than from God.

God says we are fearfully and wonderfully made; He says we are the apple of His eye; co-heirs with Jesus. What further or better affirmation can anyone give? He has also made us custodians of His Good News. In other words, we are messengers of the gospel. What a privilege and honor accorded to us by Daddy God. We need reevaluate how we view and respond to this responsibility. God’s ministry of reconciliation for a lost and dying world has been entrusted to us. There are numerous references to messengers in the Bible, and the role of each messenger, used by God, was of an unquantifiable significance. Take John the Baptist, for example, who was the messenger used by God to announce the coming of Jesus! What a privilege! We’re in good company!

As a professional in any vocation, there are fiduciary responsibilities. For example, a doctor can expect a malpractice lawsuit, the loss of his job and medical license, if he decides to take a phone call from his/her sweetheart during a surgery, leaving a cut up patient to bleed to death. Besides the legal repercussions, no one would recommend such a doctor in future, having reneged on his/her responsibilities. By the same token, if we all perform a self-diagnosis, would God recommend us from His review of how we’re carrying out the responsibility/ministry entrusted to us? We alone on an individual basis can honestly respond to this question. We are the “spiritual doctors” for the warfare that has left and continues to leave many spiritually impaired and incapacitated. Let’s all embrace our role as God’s vessels.