Devotionals

It Just Had To Be God

God will sometimes take everything you depend to show you that you didn't do it with your strength.

Judges 7:2-3
NKJV
2 And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claim glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.' 3 Now therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him turn and depart at once from Mount Gilead.' " And twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.

Now I want us to pay attention to what God said "The people who are with you are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel claims glory for itself against Me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'

You see the people against Israel were like sand on the beach. This makes 300 appear as a losing number. Impossible.

God often works in impossible-looking situations. He allows the situation. It gets complicated and worse when we human beings stop looking at ourselves but look toward God.

God works where we allow Him to have all the glory. Not half, not a quarter but all the glory because God doesn't like sharing His glory. He doesn't want any pride to come and take His place.

God gets the most glory in the impossible. Impossible is when God's power and glory are revealed.

My favourite line is "It just had to be God"

That line is so precious because it's when we humans humble ourselves and realize who we serve.

That's why God waited until Abraham was older to give him the promised child. If it was when they were younger people or even atheists could say "It could have just been them. It's normal. If I have a child it doesn't mean God did it".

If God didn't wait till Daniel was in the lion's den then how would people know God the God of Daniel is real? If Abasheck, Shadrack, and Abednego didn't go through the fire, how would people know their God is real?

Would God have gotten that amount of glory? Would people marvel and say " This God is truly the real God"

Pride kicks in many times when we rely on our own strength, abilities and resources and believe God had little to no impact on the outcome. That's why I love testimonies with "It just had to be God"

The 'It just had to be God moments' are what glorify God. It reveals God's strength during situations where we recognise our weaknesses and limitations.

Abraham recognises his limitation (his old age) to having a child.
Abasheck, Shadrack, and Abednego recognised their weakness because they aren't all-powerful like God to save themselves from a fiery furnace but had to choose to trust the one who can. Gideon had to see his weaknesses to recognise that God can use anyone and anything to accomplish anything He wishes.

There are many moments in our lives where just like Gideon we will find ourselves in moments where things go from bad to worse. The hope seems to be going down but just like Gideon, we recognise that in those moments that God wants to reveal His strength in our weaknesses. God wants to reveal that Him alone can save. Him alone is the best healer, He alone is the best delivery and provider.

The Result of It Just Had To Be God's situations.

The 3 Hebrew boys demonstrate it beautifully. They trusted God despite the situation looking deadly. They kept their faith in God but what is beautiful is that they trusted God would deliver them and even if God didn't that they still won't lose faith in Him, that faith led to God delivering them. The result of their trust in God during a time when all their self-reliance died and the reliance on other human beings wasn't there but they put trust fully in God. This led to the king declaring that everyone would serve God.