FAITH CAPSULE: He is the God that remembers to favor and God that visits with salvation.
1 Samuel 3
A psalm of David stated, “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? (Psalm 8:3-4) Are you consciously seeking Him with the knowledge that He is God that is mindful of you? Do you know Him as a God that visit? The psalmist requested in Psalm 104:6 “Remember me, O Lord, with the favor You have toward Your people. Oh, visit me with Your salvation.” The verse above testifies to the truth that God is indeed a caring God that remembers and visits His own. Are you consciously expecting His visitation when need calls for it? Any believer that is not consciously waiting to hear from God does not recognized God as a caring father who visits His children.
At a point in time in Shiloh when Eli was the priest, we are made to understand that, “…the word of Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.” (1 Samuel 3:1) The word of God is His presence; God’s communication is His revelation and where there is no revelation, transformation ceases. The journey of life without transformation will lead to termination.
It is only the one who has the understanding for the need of God’s revelation that will consciously seek after His revelation. How is your revelation experience? Revelation from God will bring forth deliverance and salvation will reign. The situation of no revelation in Shiloh called for the return of God. The Lord’s return is His appearance and it took the coming to life of Samuel for revelation to come back to Shiloh. It is written, “Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh.For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD (1 Samuel 3:21). God, who appeared again in Shiloh, will also appear again to visit you if you have lost contact with Him. He is the same yesterday and today. Obviously, where His word becomes rare, widespread revelation will cease. He is a faithful God! Call on Him and state your request to Him. The Psalmist wanted Him to remember and to visit him because when God remembers or visits, one will be enabled to see the benefit of His chosen ones. When God remembers or visit one will be able to rejoice in the gladness of His nation and will be able to glory with His inheritance. (Psalm 106:5) God is forever consistent. He is God that returns to reveal. He is the God that remembers to favor and God that visits with salvation.
Prayer for today: Ask God to remember you and to visit you in all your going and coming.