FAITH CAPSULE: Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?
Genesis 19
One that acts as an inquisitor of your life is possible not to be of God and can be the evidence of not having faith or having trust in your action rooted in God.
Inquisitor of your life can be unduly harsh, severe, or hostile.
Who is the inquisitor of your life?
God identifies Job as integrity, blameless, and upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil. (Job 2:3) The identification of Job by God was not an excuse for him not to experience inquisition from his wife, not talk of one from a distance to his life.
The inquisition of his wife was discouraging as she states, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!” (Job 2:9)
Imagine the pain of inquisition from the closest, not distance.
God saw Job as a man of integrity, but his wife saw him as wasting time by waiting on God.
Are you engaging in any challenge that is inviting inquisitors into your life?
Is the inquisitor your closest one, or do you become self-inquisitor to yourself without you knowing?
Who is the inquisitor discouraging your walk with God?
At the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his wife received the direction of God to escape destruction.
Genesis 19:17 records, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you nor stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17)
Just as they advanced on the route of escape, the wife of Lot could not obey the direction of God but questioned God by her action of disobedience as she became terminated.
The wife of Lot acted as an inquisitor of the plan of deliverance by God. The Bible record that the wife of Lot looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.” (Genesis 19:26)
Are you the inquisitor of yourself?
Often, one allows the act of a negative inquisitor to deny the blessing in place for life.
For example, Jesus did miracles on every ground but not so in His city of Nazareth.
The people of Nazareth were inquisitors wanting to know the source of His wisdom and the work of His hand.
In the eyes of His people, He was just the son of a carpenter, the mere son of Joseph and Mary. The Bible records the response of Jesus to the inquisition of His people: “But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house. He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.” (Mark 6:4-5)
Stop being an inquisitor of God?
The people of Nazareth failed to appreciate the anointing upon the life of the Anointed One.
Appreciate the doings of God over your life to gain and retain the blessing of God.
Prayer for today: Ask not to be an inquisitor or not to be a victim of the negative inquisition of this world.