Americans live in a prosperous country. Our entertainment industry shows us how beautiful life can be. Even our movie stars grow old without wrinkles or gray hair.
We want that, we cry! The perfect life, the new cars, and all that goes along with it. It should all be ours!
There is nothing wrong with a good life, with new cars, or with growing old gracefully. If Clairol is our thing, no one is going to fault our desire to be the best we can be.
Still. Some things are not for us. Sometimes we look, and we desire, and we know it is good. We are convinced! And we turn to God, and we claim that thing in his name.
We must be careful that we are not believing for the wrong miracle.
Read in Genesis 20:1-18. This passage tells of Abraham and Sarah, his wife. Abimelech, king of Gerar, found Sarah beautiful, and Abraham feared for his life. So, he lied. Abraham told the king that Sarah was his sister.
What about that? God had provided a beautiful woman into Abimelech’s hand, and she was unmarried. No one had claimed her for his own, and she was free for the taking.
It was a miracle! And Abimelech reached out and claimed his miracle, taking Sarah for his wife.
Yet, the fly soon appeared in the ointment, for Sarah was not up for grabs. She belonged to someone else. She was the wrong miracle for Abimelech to reach out and claim.
That night God appeared unto Abimelech in a dream, and he said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife.”
It is easy to condemn Abimelech, but the Word tells us he acted with integrity. He bowed before God and claimed his innocence, and God put his hand of blessing upon Abimelech and all his family.
This is a cautionary tale for the modern day Christian. Just because something glitters and seems good to us does not mean it is in God’s will. Some things are not ours to claim, no matter what the desires of our hearts may be.
That’s a revelation for some of us. Not all things are there for us to claim. However, when we have an innocent and pure heart, and our motives are holy, God will redirect us, and we will once again walk the path he desires for us.
All things in creation are God’s, but all things are not his gifts unto us.
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