“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the
voice of the Lord your God, to observe
carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above
all nations of the earth.” – Deuteronomy 28:1
In 1 Samuel 15th Chapter we
read that God asked Saul to utterly destroy the Amalekites. God wants Saul to
kill everything and every one of Amalekites. The commandment was clearly given
by God to Saul through Samuel the prophet. But Saul and his men failed to obey
God completely. They were not willing to utterly destroy everything and spared
all that was good. But they destroyed everything that was worthless.
Saul failed to obey God and so God’s
anger came upon him. God rejected Saul as king. God says in 1 Samuel 15:11, “I greatly
regret that I have set up Saul as
king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My
commandments...”
Because Saul disobeyed
God he lost all his blessings and died miserably.
Recently I heard a
testimony from a woman who is currently working in a good position in a
particular organization. Once she completed her schooling she got admitted in
an Engineering college. During the years of her study as first year was common
for everyone she had no option to choose her branch. But at the beginning of
the second year she was allowed to choose her course of study.
She had scored good
marks and so she preferred ECE as first choice, EEE as second choice and Civil
as third choice. She was so sure that she will get her first choice preference because
of her good marks. But the next day she found out that she was given the third
choice and was asked to go to the Civil department class. As she was so
disappointed she cried for the whole day without going to the department.
The same evening she
insisted her father to talk to the higher authority of that institution the
very next day so that she can get her first choice. His father agreed to her
request as he knew one of the higher authorities of that particular
institution.
The next day morning
she was happy as she knew that her father will come and speak for her. As she
happily came out of her home, she heard a voice of a preacher who was preaching
in a radio program and through him God said, “I will give you what you want but
later don’t ask me why I gave you that.”
She was touched by
that word and she knew that studying Civil Engineering was God’s choice in her
life and so she immediately surrendered her life to God saying she will continue
her study in that branch itself.
God blessed her abundantly
and she said that she has completed her doctorate degree before 30 years of age
and she became a Principal of an institution at an age of 31. Even today she is
working as a head of the department in a particular institution. God has set
her high because she obeyed God and set aside her own desire.
My dear young friends,
even today if you set aside your own desire and accept God’s will in your life
and obey His word, He will set you high. Jesus Christ will bless you richly and
He will reward you. Do not go on your own way and do not fight with God for
your own desire. Obey God and you will be blessed.
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