Daily Devotional – 4/29/13 “Well then!”

I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out what to write and nothing would come to mind. I asked God what He would have me to share with His people on today and still nothing. I saved 2 topics in my phone on yesterday but they didn’t even fit this morning. I thought about not doing a devotional today but even that didn’t fit so here I am wondering yet again. Wondering why someone like me would be an encourager to someone like you. How could I encourage someone? Why was I blessed with this gift but then one of the scriptures I jotted down yesterday came into my thoughts which says in Romans 9:20, “But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Ok God, you got me there. Oh but hold up because God wasn’t finished getting me back in line because Romans 9:21 says, “Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?” (He told me!) See, here I am trying to question why when God has already answered with why not? Here I am trying to see the logic in me encouraging you when it’s been you that has been encouraging me all this time. Yea, I know I am the one that writes this devotional that is shared but it isn’t simply about that but it’s about the lives that are affected because of it.

See, someone is going to read this and may be angry over things that are happening in their lives at this very moment but have you stopped to think that maybe you’re going through is the way to your break through? Yea, you wondering why you have to be the one who’s sick but baby can’t just anybody rock a bald head from chemo, the scar from transplant surgery or open heart surgery. Can’t just anybody tell a drug addict or an alcoholic how to live after the drugs and alcohol. Can’t just anybody tell a testimony of how God raised you when you should have been buried in that dusty grave, how that bullet should have blown your brains out but it grazed you instead, how that car should have claimed your life but it left you with only bruises from the seatbelt, how that abusive husband should have snatched your life but instead he made you strong for the husband that God was waiting on you to see or how that job thought they had defeated you when they said no but they were simply moving out the way for your career. Oh, I’ve got to leave this thang alone because it’s causing some shaking in my spirit but you needed to know this morning that you shall overcome, you shall be greater than that which is against you, you shall be better than those who want to see you fall, you will live and not die, you will be victorious and not a victim and you will win and not lose! How do I know? Because I’ve been promised by a King that everything you ask for will be given!