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“Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with
confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time
of need. “ (Hebrews 4:16)
Mercy is not getting what we deserve.
Grace is getting what we don’t deserve.
And it is grace and mercy that often gets us out of trouble!
We
all have burdens and concerns that sometimes keep us awake at night. Like last Wednesday when we just came back
from my in-laws’ place in Penang, I suddenly got a message in the evening that there
was a big problem in a project that I was handling. It just upset my mood for
the whole evening. And the only thing
that I could do was cry out, “God, help me.
God, have mercy.” I do not even know how to pray...
Hebrews
4:16 tells us that we can receive mercy and find grace in our time of
need. “In our time of need” literally
means “at the right moment when we need it.”
God’s
answers are always perfectly timed.
Seldom early and never late.
The
cars that we drive comes with an air bag.
Or rather a few air bags; in the driver’s seat, passenger’s seat, rear
seats. You’ve never seen the air
bags. But they tell you, as soon as you
hit something head-on, it’s going to explode.
It’s going to catch you like a down pillow. It will be nice. And it will save your life.
Have
you ever seen the air-bags in your car?
Is
it there?
You
don’t know.
You
hope it is there.
When
are you going to find out?
When
you need it.
My
wife, CP, had first hand experience finding out about the air bag in
her car, a few years ago. She tried to avoid a Styrofoam
box in the middle of the NPE (New Pantai Expressway) lost control and hit into the concrete crash
barrier and her car overturned. The
air-bag exploded and cushioned her from hitting the windscreen and the steering
wheel.
It worked!
She crawled out safely from the overturned car with hardly a scratch on her. It was a miracle!
Like
an airbag, when we need divine intervention,
God is going to be there. We
cannot see it right now. But we will receive mercy and find grace just at the
time when we need it.
So,
what do we do in the meantime? In
Matthew 6, Jesus tells us not to worry about tomorrow, because all our worrying
today is not going to change one second of tomorrow. You learn to trust God and seek first the kingdom
of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto
you.
God
already knows what is going to happen tomorrow, and the day after, and the days
after that. And He has promised to be
with you no matter what happens.
So,
as we stand on the threshold of 2018, getting ready to enter into 2019, let us
remember that God has promised to never leave us nor forsake us.
He is with us when we feel His presence.
And He is with us even during the times when we feel nothing at all.
And He is with us even during the times when we feel nothing at all.
God
is faithful. And He is in control.
And as for the problem in the project that God has placed under my watch, God's air-bag has not been activated yet. There is still no solution in sight.
I have confidence that God will work things out for me in the new year.
He has always done so.
Just that I do not know how or when.
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