Samuel D. High
sdhigh@aristotle.net
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From: Apostle Tom <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Sent: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:19:27 -0500
To: <pressingon@hotmail.com>
Subject: Morning Manna (Aug. 31); BP: Jer. 17; RBTTY: I Cor. 11:17-34; Ps.
August 31 “Our Physician, Provider and Praise”
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved—for You are my praise.”
Jeremiah 17:14
Remembering this will keep us from disillusionment and despair.
In whom or what are you trusting today, Pilgrim? On what or whom are you depending to be there when you need it/him? In reality, that’s what today’s Manna is reminding us to ask ourselves.
Look at the words again:
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.” King Asa was a Godly king who “did that which was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God” (II Chron. 14:2). He “took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, broke down the images and cut down the groves and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and do the law and the commandment” (vv.3-4).
Later on, when they came up against the mighty Ethiopians, Asa “cried unto the Lord, his God, and said ‘Lord, it is nothing with You to help, whether with many or with them that have no power; help us, O Lord, our God—for we rest on You and in Your Name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God’” (II Chron. 14:9-11). And, the Lord “smote the Ethiopians before Asa and they fled” (v.12).
Yet, later on Asa was “diseased in his feet and his disease was exceedingly great; yet, in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers and died in the 41st year of his reign” (II Chron. 16:12-13). Oh how important to say to our Great Physician, “Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed.”
Likewise, we should also cry, “Save me, O Lord, and I shall be saved—for You are my praise.” Too often we run to “arms of flesh,” begging their assistance and consolation when things are going bad. But, in so doing, we make them “surrogate saviors” or “counterfeit christs,” who lack the foreknowledge, ability or willingness to aid us in the right way.
And, in going to them first, instead of the Lord (Mt. 6:33), we wound His Holy Heart and basically say, “I know You’re able (but I’m not sure You’re willing)” or “I know You said You’d supply all of my needs, BUT I still think we’ve got to look out for ourselves.” How utterly tragic!
Dear Pilgrim, how it thrills our Heavenly Father’s heart when we run to Him at the first sign of danger! How it delights Him when we “cast on Him all of our cares” instead of calling up several friends and expecting them to ease our troubled minds and burdened hearts.
“He is able,” dear one—and “He is willing.” And, above all He “is faithful” (I Cor. 10:13). So, cry out to Him even now and say “You are my Praise and my Portion, O Lord, and I will trust in no other” (Ps. 16:5; 73:26; 119:57). Hallelujah!!
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