This is a continuation of yesterday's post.
1. God’s ways are not our ways.
How many of God’s active servants have been laid aside by illness or other problems and they have questioned the wisdom of God. They have felt that God made a mistake by stopping a successful public ministry and left them on a bed of illness. One well known speaker and writer from a few years ago was laid aside with a heart attack. He started to complain to God saying that God had made a mistake. After all he was busy for the Lord writing and speaking. The Lord then spoke to him and reminded him that he was so busy in his work that he had neglected his time with the Lord. The Lord loved him more than his work and wanted him to spend time with the Lord. In order to do that the Lord had to stop him and lay him aside for a time. Elijah needed to spend time with his God.
But God’s wisdom is not man’s wisdom. God has often laid aside His servants so that they can spend time with Him. There is often a greater ministry than they have been doing and that is the ministry of prayer. One of the sins of a successful ministry that God’s servants must guard against is the sin of prayerlessness
Continued tomorrow LW.
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