When Men Arise

God will not do for you what He has given you hands to do for yourself. Between the “It shall come to pass” of prophetic declaration, and the “It came to pass” of prophetic fulfillment, there is usually human intervention. There is a limit to what God can do among men until they arise. You will never arrive at your destination until you arise. The lepers in Samaria asked themselves, “Why sit we here until we die?” If you sit, you will die. Even when God has multiplied your bread and fish, He will not put it into your mouth. You still will starve if you do not do something. Even when He has brought you to the thresholds of a vast Promised Land, you can only get as much as the soles of your feet shall dare to tread, not as much as you may dare to dream. Regrettably, Solomon tells all that the lazy person will be killed by his uncanny satellite eye by which he is able to see, from the safety of his fortified room, that “There is a lion in the way.” God will arise when men arise.