God Is Not a Man

Verse of the day: Judges 13:24, So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

Why do we doubt? Is it because God does not work on our timetable? Is it because He is not our genie in a bottle who gives us everything we want when we want it? Is it because He may allow us to go through difficult times in order to teach us to trust Him and to build our character so that we are more like Jesus? Manoah’s wife was barren, and like Sarah, and other barren women in the Bible, when God promised that they would conceive and have a child, regardless of how long it took, His Word came to pass. So often, we allow our faith to waver because we see that God is “taking His time” in providing what we see as a need in our lives. It may even be something we desire, that is not sinful to ask for, but for some unknown reason, God is delaying in giving it to us. In this chapter we see two things taking place as far as God being faithful to His Word. First, the fact that God is working to provide a judge to deliver Israel, and at the same time, fulfill a promise made to Manoah and his wife that they would bare a son. The God who is preparing a deliverer and made this promise is the same God who was faithful time and time again in hearing Israel’s repentant prayers and answering them. This same God is the One who today still hears and answers our prayers. He is God who promises that if we seek first the Kingdom, He will provide all that we need (Matthew 6:25-34). When the devils begin to use a delayed answer to prayer as a way to shake our faith, let us remember what we are told in Numbers 23:19, “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” When we begin to doubt God’s Word because we do not see things happening on our timetable, or we see things happening differently than we desire, let us remember that God does not operate the same way we do. Isaiah 55:8-11 tells us, “‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the LORD. 9 ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.’” There may be people we know, family, friends, and co-workers that we are praying for in respect to salvation, but nothing seems to be happening. Maybe, we are praying for a need and time seems to be running out. Hold fast and do not give up. God has proven time and time again in His Word, and for many of us in our lives, that He is faithful. The bottom line is that God is not a man that he should lie or break a promise. He is God, and He is faithful.

Today, God extends an invitation to you to accept His gift of salvation (Rom 6:23). Will you accept it? Anyone who calls on Jesus, by faith, in repentance, confessing your sins, will receive eternal life. Do not put off calling on Him, and receive Him and His gift of salvation today (Rom 10:13).