Jayamsih..! Welcome to today’s devotion!
God stops.
1 Samuel 26:11.
- How easy it is to become too familiar with Jesus Christ and be carried away by the holiness of His presence. This is a mistake that people are too familiar with or too far away from. We should not treat God or people too familiarly. When we prevent overfamiliarity from creeping into our behavior toward people, it does not take away from intimacy but it allows God’s presence to take its beautiful place in each other. When the presence of God takes that place, in the sanctity of time He reveals the secret of each other’s share.
Lot was very familiar with Abraham, yet Abraham treated Lot rightly as a child of God. Miriam and Aaron were very familiar with Moses and treated him like a brother of the earth (Numbers 12). But God spoke for His people and He declared that He would speak with Moses face to face. As a result of her familiarity with the man of God, Mary was silenced for seven days. Her over-familiarity tricked him into thinking she could speak against God’s people, using an earthly connection.
This is a man who, by spiritual caution against over-familiarity, can know his heart by the grace of God, as illustrated in the life of David. David was not very familiar with King Saul, because God had anointed Saul, although at the same time Saul was a murderer in his heart. David always respected God’s anointing, even if it meant life to him, before he was ever too familiar to react to that situation. - Today’s reading passage: Job 11-13