Daily Devotional: Who is your God?
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DAILY MANNA
SATURDAY 21ST NOVEMBER, 2020
WHO IS YOUR GOD?
📜📜TEXT: 2 KINGS 18:26-37📜📜
🔑📖 KEY VERSE: “Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?” (2 KINGS 18:34).
In a village evangelistic outreach, a man of God shared his experience about the power of God with an old woman. The woman had been worshipping a local deity for years with her crippled son. Yet, the god could not heal the hopeless son.
The preacher then asked: “Why is your god not able to heal your son?” But the woman could not convincingly defend the failure of her god to change her son’s condition. He told her about Christ and His power in all situations. She thus pledged to abandon her god for Christ if God could make him walk. After prayers of faith, her son rose and started walking. This testimony attests to the fact that the Lord is the true God, who is all-powerful and dependable in all situations.
As the case of the old woman, our text reveals the ignorance of Rabshakeh, a servant of the king of Assyria. Ignorantly, he equated God Almighty, the Creator of the whole universe, with ordinary idols. The text also explains the foolishness of Rabshakeh, who asked the people of Judah not to trust in God, who brought them out of Egypt. Despite the Assyrian threat, the people “held their peace, and answered him not a word.”
As Christians, there are lessons to draw from this account. First, only God has an unfailing and unlimited power. All other gods are powerless. Second, those who trust in the god of money, fame, politics, herbalists, or prophets will be disappointed like the people of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivah. Third, as believers, we should take solace in God, who is able to deliver as He did in the case of Hezekiah. He will frustrate every threat and attack from our enemies.
Does your condition defy all solutions? Are your foes asking if your God is alive? Remember, God will surely deliver His people who put their trust in Him.
✍🏽 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Only God our Creator can truly deliver.
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