God's Bidding

Christians should never live in fear of the enemy. Fear is a crippling tool that the devil uses to incapacitate the child of God. Fear creates a loophole through which the enemy can enter the lives of the believers. Engraved within the intellect of the Christian is the fact that God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).

Job was an upright man whom God called perfect, he abhorred evil and did that which was right in the sight of God. The bible declares that Satan stood before God. Immediately God took charge of the conversation and one of the first things he talked about was Job. God asked Satan if he had considered Job, in other words he wanted to know if Lucifer had given thought to what a perfect man Job was. Satan acknowledged the righteousness of Job but accredited Job’s love for God to the blessings and protection that God had given to him.

Satan proceeded to pull the wool over God’s eyes or so it seemed. Satan proceeded to ask God if Job would love him for nothing. Satan attempted to coax God, the all knowing, into removing his protective hand from around Job. This is like two boys on a Sunday Morning all dressed up on their way to Sunday school. While walking down the track they come upon a little pond filled with murky water. As they both stare into the grimy unknown the younger says to the older, “I’m sure you’re too scared to jump in there”

The older replies, “I aint scared to do nothing”

“I know you’re scared, I can see it in your face, you can’t jump in” the younger insists.

The older boy says, “I aint scared to jump in”

“Yes you are, scaredy cat” says the younger

“No, I’m not”

“Yes you are” replies the younger boy with an evil little half grin on his face for he knew that he had his older counterpart right where he wanted him.

The elder boy, in such a panic to prove that he could jump into the pond, without thinking closes his eyes and with one mighty leap, jumps right in. The younger boy stands with his hands over his stomach laughing uncontrollably. He managed to coax his older friend into jumping into a muddy pool of water in his Sunday school clothes.

It seems as if this is the exact thing that Satan was trying with God. To make matters worse it seems as if God was falling for it. God Loved Job so much yet Satan convinced him to remove not only the protection that he had given him but also the blessings. “Will Job love you for naught?” was the question posed to God and apparently God wanted to prove that Job would love him for naught.

With this recognized, we stand confused as to how Satan could manage to pull the wool over God’s eyes in such a manner. After all, Jehovah is the God that knows all things and is infinite in wisdom. It must be remembered that our God is the head of all principalities and powers. God was pleased with Job and God called him perfect. We cannot change this or attempt to twist Gods word to find an alternate meaning. Job was pleasing to God and God desired to bless Job more than he had already blessed him. In order for Job to receive a greater blessing he had to overcome a greater obstacle. God would not afflict his righteous servant, so he had to devise a way for Job to be afflicted in order to receive a greater blessing. Satan came up in time. There is no one better to administer evil than Satan himself. While Satan thought that he was afflicting Job he was actually creating an avenue for Job to receive a greater blessing. God is a just God and every man receives a just recompense and Job received the just reward for all the afflictions he faced in righteousness.

On many occasions we only see the suffering without seeing the possible end result. It seems as if the enemy has his way in our lives sometimes but the truth is he is only unconsciously accomplishing the bidding of God. This can also be observed when we look at the life of the dreamer, Joseph.

Joseph’s brethren called him the dreamer for he had a dream indicating that his brothers and his parents would all bow down to him. This dream within Joseph was only a seed. As Joseph wandered in the field looking for his brethren he became lost. Many Christians have a dream and an anointed unction in their lives but still wander aimlessly through the vast expanse of ministry. The bible declares that once we seek we will find so even if we spend some time wandering our steps will be ordered by the Lord. Joseph met a certain man who directed him to his brethren who were in Dothan, a place called ‘the wells’. 

As Joseph’s brothers saw him they remarked, “Behold this dreamer cometh.”(Genesis 37:19)

The plan was eventually derived to cast Joseph into a pit and so they did. Many people see this pit as the worst place but this pit actually saved Joseph’s life. Ruben, Joseph’s elder brother suggested that he be cast into the pit so he would not be slain. It must be realized that sometimes the place we at now, in the pit of our lives is exactly where God wants us to be because the walls of the pit proves to be our protection.

The pit that Joseph was cast into was excavated there to collect rain water. The bible declares that this pit was dry. It is almost as if this pit had some other divine purpose than just collecting water. This pit must have been divinely placed there by the hand of God for the commencement of Joseph’s journey. Joseph’s dream within him was a seed that God had created. All God had to do was find a place to plant the seed. This is why that pit was made ready. While Satan thought that he was killing Joseph and his dream he was actually planting the seed of a dream. Joseph died the day he was thrown into the pit. From that day he was dead to his brothers and his father. The Joseph they knew was now dead but unless a seed falls to the ground and die it cannot bear fruit. Except a corn of wheat fall to the ground and die, it abideth alone: bit if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. (John 12:24)

Christians find themselves in the pit and question God as to why they are there but the value of the pit must be recognized. With all fervency and rigidity we wrestle to find our way out of the pit. The anointed of God do not climb out of the pit but they grow out of it. This is when we become trees of righteousness the planting of the LORD. God takes his anointed from ashes to beauty, from mourning to gladness, from despair to peace and from the pit to a prince. Joseph’s journey to the fruition of his dream began with the pit and grew from that point onward. The bible did not omit the pit from Joseph’s story for the pit proved to be priceless in the realization of his anointing.

The truth remains; the position God has ordained for his chosen vessels stands vacant. As we journey toward the ordained place we encounter many obstacles but the anointing will break every yoke and destroy the stumbling blocks that hinder the growth of a Christian. The deeper the anointing goes the stronger the Christian grows.