1. Esdras 7:6 (NEG79)
  2. Applications

Seeing the hand of the Lord

Esdras 7:6 (NEG79)

6 Cet Esdras vint de Babylone: c'était un scribe versé dans la loi de Moïse, donnée par l'Eternel, le Dieu d'Israël. Et comme la main de l'Eternel, son Dieu, était sur lui, le roi lui accorda tout ce qu'il avait demandé.

How often do we interpret the events in our lives from a very limited perspective? [We overcome that temptation] by gaining a larger perspective. That is why we have the Bible; it enables us to lift our eyes up. It enables us to look at things from a bigger perspective, from God's perspective. Why do we doubt? Because we lose that perspective. I think that is one of the reasons why we come to church on Sundays, isn't it? To be able to stop all that we are doing during the week in all of the business, and gain a heavenly perspective again. Hopefully we do that. We stop and we look up. We worship God. We hear from God's Word. We orient our thinking. We go up into heaven and then come back down from heaven and then we can look around at the things we were experiencing and things we are going to experience and say, okay, I want to keep in mind that God is in control here. God is sovereign.1

Michael Voytek