Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to this new week. And I pray that you will experience restoration and comfort in every area of your life in which you have been cheated or robbed, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Now I offered that prayer for you so that you will not lose heart or give up because of whatever loss you may have experienced in life. It is a clear fact that there are lossess that are difficult to handle or cope with. There are lossess that are able to destroy whole lives and whatever potential they may have in them. And there are losses that make people wish for death or say all kinds of negative things about themselves, others and even God.
Nevertheless, because our God is a merciful God, we can trust Him to enable us deal with our losses and to also comfort and restore us, even when we are the ones responsible for those losses. He once said this to His people: “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, And praise the name of the LORD your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you; And My people shall never be put to shame.” (Joel 2:25-26NKJV)
Did you see that? Even though afflictions came on those people because of their many sins against God, He still, in His mercy, promised to restore to them the wasted years of their lives and to satisfy them with abundance of good things. This, of course, is contrary to the thinking of many. They think once time, which is man’s most valuable asset, is lost, there is nothing that can be done to redeem it — all the privileges and opportunities that come with it are lost altogether.
But God says, “No, that is not always the case. If I want to, I can restore your wasted years and the opportunities that were lost with them.” And this does not mean that He will bring back the years or opportunities that are already gone. No! Rather, it means that He will do to and for our lives things that will make them look like we never really lost anything. That was what He did for Job, for example. That man, in one day, lost everything, including his ten children. And while he was still trying to process that, he lost his heath too. But what he did do wrong? Nothing, according to the bible! God simply allowed Satan to strike him the way he did in order to show him (Satan) and the world of men that this man’s faith was genuine and not fake. (Cf. Job 1&2)
In any case, when Job had given up on life and had become thoroughly worn out in every sense, God came to Him, set Him right where he was wrong and then restored him. God literally brought beauty, health and joy back into that man’s life. And not only that, He also gave him more years and energy to enjoy his restoration. The Lord indeed is a merciful God. (Cf. Job 42; James 5:11)
In like manner, regardless of the degree of losses you are dealing with, if you will utterly cast yourself on God, He will certainly restore and comfort you. How He will do this is not something I know or can tell you. But I do know that He is more than up to the task. So, don’t, because of your losses, surrender to the devil or take your life. Instead give your life and everything you are experiencing to God. And in His wisdom, He will do whatever is needful for your restoration and comfort, which will manifest in due season.
Do have a pleasant week.
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