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PRESERVATION PROVIDENCE
SATURDAY, MARCH 20
Acts 23:12-35

John 7:1-2

 

“…he would not walk in Jewry,

because the Jews sought to kill him.”

 

PRESERVATION PROVIDENCE
 
God always has His way of preserving His servants. When their assignment is not completed yet, God will by His mighty hand keep them so that they can finish the work. We take comfort in this that if we are doing the work of God, we are assured of His enablement to finish it. Read Philippians 1:6.
 
Conspiracy planned: God’s control in the life of a Christian does not imply a red-carpeted journey. Evildoers are relentless in their pursuit to destroy believers as this is Satan’s commission for them. Here, there were more than forty people who had organised themselves and had taken a vow that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. The Greek word means “they anathematised themselves” implying the seriousness of the vow they had bound themselves to.
 
Concealment performed: However, the Lord exposed the plan to the chief captain through a young boy. “Walls have ears” and the evil plot was told to the authorities. The providence of God was remarkable in bringing this conspiracy to the knowledge of Paul’s nephew. The Lord moved the heart of the chief captain to transfer Paul to another place, Caesarea. It was approximately 160 km from Jerusalem (as the crow flies). He was transported like a very important person: heavily guarded by 200 soldiers with 70 horsemen and 200 spearmen.
 
As Peterson wrote in his hymn, “All things work out for good, we know – such is God’s great design; he orders all our steps below for purposes divine, for purposes divine. …So now the future holds no fear, God guards the work begun; and mortals are immortal here until their work is done, until their work is done.”
 
Nothing comes along our way, bad or good, that has not been allowed or ordered by the Lord. “Some day the path he chose for me will all be understood; in heaven’s clearer light I’ll see all things work’d out for good, all things work’d out for good.”
 
THOUGHT: Am I thankful for God’s providential working in my life?

PRAYER: Father, pardon me for not trusting Thee for my life’s future.

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