Posted by By Patrick Enilama [pastorpatrick@sunnewsonline.com] on
God has a university. It is a very small school. Few enroll in it. Fewer people graduate. It is in this school you can be disciplined so others won't get to discipline you later in life. It is here you are straightened by being bent over; taught the virtue of patience, as the impatient never get to their designation.
God has a university. It is a very small school. Few enroll in it. Fewer people graduate. It is in this school you can be disciplined so others won't get to discipline you later in life. It is here you are straightened by being bent over; taught the virtue of patience, as the impatient never get to their designation.
Many people are unwilling to enroll in this school of submission and brokenness. Students of this school suffer pains as they are refined and purified by fire. For in this school, you are bound to experience pain before balm, thorn before throne, gall before glory and cross before crown.
In this school you are taught some vital lessons of life as to how God works. His ways are not our ways. When men look at your deeds, he looks at the motives behind your deeds. It is here you come with the realization that when God is about to do something wonderful, he begins with difficulties.
If it is going to be something very great, He starts with impossibilities. And how it is said that difficulties pay for migrating birds wait for the wind that blow against them to attain needed elevation in their life journey. God does not speak to the proud in heart. He speaks only to the meek and lowly in heart. Until you pass the meekness test, in God's own university you are not ready for divine direction.
Moses was a product of this university for when he graduated; the bible described him in the book of Num. 12:3 as "Very meek, above all, the men which where upon the face of the earth.
No wonder Moses was able, at eighty, to deliver his people from the bondage of Pharaoh in Egypt and to lead them on the journey to the Promised Land.
God has this school because he does not have broken men. Humble men, meek men, not proud. He has several others who claim to be God's authority, and are not, men who claim to have the fear of God and aren't. And men who are God's authority but who are mad and unbroken.
It is often the unbroken ruler God uses to mete out pain. For example, God allowed the late Head of State, Gen Abacha to mete out pain on the Nigerian people for four years. In the process, Nigerians became wiser and they drew closer to God.
David was a student in this school. Under very excruciating conditions, King Saul was God's chosen way to crush David to brokenness and meekness. As King Saul grew in madness David grew in wisdom and understanding. He "behaved himself very wisely" I Sam. 17:15.
David knew that God had placed him in the king palace, under King Saul authority. "And David went out whiter so ever Saul sent him, but the Lord was with him. Wherefore King Saul saw that he behave himself very wisely he was afraid of him" I Sam. 18:14-15.
Who is your King Saul placed over you? Is he your boss in the office? Your Landlord or your wife? Under extreme trying conditions David refrained from blaspheming King Saul. He would neither slander him nor lift up his hand against the anointed King of Israel even when he had the opportunity. No wonder the Lord describe David as 'a man after His heart". He obediently humbled himself.
Today in Israel notable national landmarks are named after - King David. The person with true sense of obedience to higher power and humility never really has to be shown his place; he is always in it. David stayed humbled in greatness, never proud. When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
The Lord Jesus Christ, is himself the embodiment of this school of submission and brokenness. Not minding his exalted position, he humbled himself to be baptized by John the Baptist, though he was the Messiah. Hear him: "Come unto me all ye that labour and heavy laden and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls"
Brethren, do not harden your heart this day as we invite you to Christ. Come unto our Lord Jesus Christ he will save you and give unto you the grace to live an obedient and humble life. He will clothe you with humility and meekness.
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