It is easy for us to lose our focus on God. Few are the people who can keep God in their sights when financial turbulence and emotional turmoil buffet us.
However, God lives in the Land of Neither. It’s like that motto from the postal service. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail...
If God determines something, nothing can stand in his way.
What about when the mess that consumes us is of our own making? Will God turn his back on us?
Of course not!
King Saul had made a royal mess of things, pun intended. The Gibeonites had received an oath of protection from the Israelites. However, Saul violated that oath, and he attempted to wipe the Gibeonites out.
A three-year famine plagued the land.
David did his best to rectify the matter, promising the Gibeonites he would do whatever it took to repair the damage done by Saul.
In 2 Samuel 21:4, we read their answer. “We will accept no silver or gold of Saul or of his house; neither for us shall you kill any man in Israel.”
Wow! Did God ever intervene!
David was the tree we read of in Jeremiah 17:8. He was planted by the waters. His roots were sunk deep into the underground springs, and when the hard trials came, his leaves remained green.
David’s roots were sunk deep in the Lord.
This is the lesson we can learn from David. If we have our faith firmly rooted in God our Father, even in times of spiritual drought, he will be able to use us to shower an abundant harvest on those around us.
We must be as Paul in Galatians 1:1. He recognized that his authority did not come about from his humanity, neither did a group of men come together to send him to share the gospel; rather he was commissioned by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead.
That places us firmly in God’s Neither Land. If we are firmly rooted in Jesus, he will not let those around us defeat us, neither will he allow spiritual drought to sap the strength from our limbs. We shall be fruitful in him, and those around us will share in the precious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ who was raised from the dead.
Sinking our roots deep in Jesus through his Word can help us survive whatever comes our way. When we find our strength in him, neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail can keep us from sharing his goodness.
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