This Week With Jesus

 

  You can't get away from God! Moses, Jonah, Lot, Abraham, Elijah, and so many more had a calling from God to do His work - as many of us still do. Some of these gentlemen meekly did what they were told, and some tried to run away, just as we do. The story of each one of these folks indicates just one thing: If God has called you, don't try and run. You can't! So here is Nellie, a member of the Hilton Street Church who tells it like it is. 

 All we have is time.  I, you and we belong to a world where more is less. We want more of everything, from food to clothes to cars, to education and other luxuries and we want more time to do what we want to do. When we get what we wanted, we dream and want the next level. We want it for ourselves as well as for our children, which is natural. And our children want the same for  their  children. And the story goes on till it can no longer, because we die. And we spend the last few years of our lives deciding who to give what, of what is left of what we have collected. So we spend 20 years dreaming, 40 years acquiring and then the last phase where we are giving or rather planning to give or praying hard to get more time for all of this.  Covid broke that vicious circle for me.   I and my family were stuck in a foreign country for more than 2 years. We had planned travel for 1 month but spent 2 years and more. Everything we had was in our home which was locked up and deserted. We had to

For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him. — Ezra 8:22 The story of Ezra is very often our story as well. His situation was very similar, yet while he demonstrated faith to the point of facing death, we fail miserably, seeking the help of fellow men, while professing faith in God. We profess all blessings of God and His power to help us overcome any mountains we face. We say God provides. Yet in the time of adversity, we run to our fellow men for their help. Will that cry for their help not dishonor the very God we professed to them? Will they not laugh and think, where is the God we so highly talked about? Craving aid from man dishonors the very God we proclaim to have saved us. Yes, God may work through man. He may send an angel in times of our