FAITH CAPSULE: Do not only celebrate the gift of God but confess and be living the Word.
2 Kings 5
Power and might be unto God. He alone is the unquestionable God, the unchanging changer and the only God that revises the irreversible. The love of God for His creation knows no bound. Out of His goodness and mercy, He gave His only begotten Son. It is written, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” (John 3:16-17)
God gave a very expensive gift. The gift of God is a sacrificial gift and is meant to redeem man from condemnation. The gift of God is a precious gift for everyone to preciously accept it. As precious as it is, He does not force it on anyone to receive it. In the gift of God there is grace to live life abundantly for those who make the right choice to receive and believe in His gift for us.
Many take to celebrating the gift of God but lack the understanding to receive and believe His gift. Unfortunately, many celebrate His gift and not confess His gift. For any who does not confess but celebrate, it is an evidence of not having received and believed in the gift of God.
The story of Naaman the leper is that of one in the place of free gift but yet does not know to receive and believe gift for his cleansing. A young captive girl offered a deliverance avenue to Naaman through Naaman’s wife, when she informed about Elisha the man of God. It is written, “Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house. And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.” But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.”” (2kings 5:9-11) The pride in Naaman denied him his healing salvation at his first attempt. Naaman could not see his healing salvation in the word of the man of God when he despised the word which directed him to Jordan River for his healing salvation. Just like Naaman, many are not able to see there salvation in the Living Word of God that was born in the manger for their salvation.
Do not only celebrate the gift of God but confess Him and begin to live life in of the living Word of God.
Prayer for today: Ask for the grace to see and believe in the Living Word of God.