Call To God

Got this great insight into this verse in Jeremiah. You have probably read it before.

Jer 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you
               and tell you great and unsearchable
               things you do not know."

When I was reading this particular verse one morning, I was prompted by Holy Spirit to go over it again and I got a very wonderful revelation. It was amazing what deep things were embedded in this verse. I would like to take the second part first. "... tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know". Now God is saying in addition to Him answering to your Call to Him, He is going to tell you, first of all, things that are Great. I don't know about you but God telling me Great things can never be underestimated. This is Great according to God's standards. What more could I ask for? And in addition to that, whatever He will tell me is unsearchable. That means man will try their hardest and will NOT be able to find it. They cannot even search for it! Its not surprising that atheists are still struggling with obtaining the knowledge about very earth they live in and what on earth they are here for. Some get frustrated and commit suicide with the reason that life is meaningless. The kind of meaning you are searching for can only be found in God. Only God can tell you. God is really a friend to us if you think about it. Imagine going to visit your office boss or your lecturer for some reason and after the purpose of the visit is accomplished, he talks to you about some deep things that only you by virtue of the fact you visited him got the privilege of knowing.

Now to the first part which to me was very interesting. Readers what made this verse different this time around was attention paid to the word ... "TO" as in "Call TO me". I was like, "What on this earth could the word "to" do to this verse."

The verse says call To me. Not Call On me. Or call Me. When you tell someone to call On you, you are implying that they should call on you when a certain condition is specified. For example, Call On me when you get tired OR call On me when you need help OR call On me when you feel like I should come in. Calling on someone always naturally has a condition attached to it so generally, the sentence construction for calling On someone is likely to be "Call On me when ..." Or "Call On me if..."

Also the verse did not say call Me. the words "call me" suggests that you have to your disposal a number of people you can call including the "me" person. Just like the contacts you have on your phone. Imagine you suddenly meet a friend in town and he/she asks you to call him/her. Calling that person doesn't mean you are not going to call those other contacts on you phone, does it?

Now the verse uses the word "to" some other versions use "unto" which pretty much carries the same meaning. Calling to someone or something is optionally conditional. In fact it is less conditional more often than not. Take for example how your phone works. If you want to achieve the aim of calling someone, I hope you are aware its not that straight forward. If you are a say a Tigo user and you want to make a call, 100% of the time, your phone will send a request to Tigo that it wants to communicate with some other phone. Using the phone as the example subject here, we know a phone can send text messages, make calls, send MMS and perform some other communication activities. However, regardless of whatever type or kind of communication that it wants to undertake, it first has to make a Call To its service provider in this case is Tigo. Whether rain or shine, day or night, it has to make a call To to its source before any of those mentioned functions can be performed. The phone using Tigo doesn't have a choice but to use the services of Tigo and nothing else. It cannot decide to use airtel for today and Tigo the next 3 days or anything of that sort. It is the same with Christians. We accomplish whatever we were made to accomplish by first contacting our source and life provider. And it is unconditional!

The Bible is so right in telling us to Call To God. Calling To God doesn't require a certain condition to be fulfilled before you do so. You don't have to get into trouble before you call to God. As His child, you do so always. In your shopping, eating, exercising, learning etc, He has to be involved. Also, the relationship between you and father is tightened by continually talking to Him about everything. Try it and see for yourself and enjoy the wonderful father-child relationship.

God loves you!
With So much love ...
Share this love with someone. You may never what someone may be going through unless you interact with the person and may never know what change you can impact on a person unless you initiate a certain kind of interaction.

Amen.

Be Blessed,
+AL

Seasons

Well, welcome to this new post. I hope you find it enjoyable, pleasing and a blessing to read this post.

You know there is a time and season for everything. There is the raining season, dry season, there's winter, summer, lean season, etc. You have got to know the season you are in at every point in time. As Christians, there is something that God is up to at every point in time concerning your very life and have to flow with it. So I would like to share my current season with you. Its interesting how God reveals the season you are in to in. It is characterized by the physical things that you see around. You got to see beyond what you see in the physical. You see, these physical things are a shadow of the real spiritual things. Just like a shadow in real life, it gives a silhouette of the actual figure.

I would like to begin with how I detected it and how I am flowing with it. One morning as I started to do my quiet time using the Daily Guide devotional from SU (Thank you SU), I noticed the scripture used for that particular day really was related to my what was happening in my life physically. Usually most people would ignore this and let it go as a co-incidence. But don't forget before that "co incidence" occurred, God knew it would happen so...? (I am trying to point out to you that if that was truly a co-incidence, then God was really surprised!) Now, there was this decision that I had to make and I was struggling as to what choice to make and so of course I contacted God about it and the answer came through my quiet time. You know as humans sometimes we want a second confirmation or more proof just to be super-sure like Thomas. So it happen that I was led to read a book by Bishop Dag Heward Mills (Great Man of God) and it spoke extensively about the decision I had to make and so from then on, I figured God is trying to deal with me on that particular subject. (You realise that some info is missing in this post. You were not expecting I would share my really really deep parts of my life, were you?) I would describe the season I am in right now as Losing, Suffering, Sacrifice, Dying (L.S.S.D) season. Yep. It looks quite unnatural right. You see you've got realize early in life that as a Christian that not everything will go your way and not everything you experience by virtue of the fact that you are christian will be enjoyable. You are likely not to like most of the experiences you go through as a christian or a disciple of Christ. This is to fulfill scripture you know. Jesus while on earth said, foxes and birds have a place where they can lay their heads but the Son of man has NOWHERE to lay His head. Now he said this after someone asked if he could be His disciple. There were times where Jesus said there were times where you would be losing the very things or people you hold precious. You see there are somethings that if you don't decide to lose consciously, you may be forced to lose it and that would hurt more that if you consciously let go. Be smart and clever.

There's one thing that I have learnt about seasons though. God shown me that with every season you are in, you get related problems associated with it. And also. it helps you discern the times regarding the season. I actually realized this truth when I got into this new season of Zeal and the Word. Just like a day after this season, there was a situation that required me to express my zeal that I proclaimed that I had. Now let me go details into this season. For the zeal, I told myself I will fight my way to make sure the wishes of God are accomplished especially for the campus church (LCI Ashesi Allos facebook page coming soon). Then one evening, getting close to the time for us to have our midweek service, I found out that the venue was locked, and there were no chairs in there. Now the chairs were in a room that had another programme going on. I had to make the decision of either waiting for them to finish (which wasn't anytime soon) or going in there and without shame ask to take some chairs out for another purpose
//To be continued Stay tuned