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	No Wonder


Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. Jeremiah 33:3.


A husband and wife took their mothers out for dinner one night. Both mothers' birthdays fell within the same week and part of their gifts to each of the ladies was to take them to a nice restaurant, where they were instructed to disregard any prices--they were to order anything they liked. When the server came around to take their orders, the daughter's mother ordered a succulent, expensive course, while the son's mother ordered the cheapest, simplest thing on the menu. When the server left, the second mother chided the first for her choice. The daughter's mother replied, "My daughter said I could have anything I wanted. I believed her; I merely took her at her word."

According to legend, Alexander the Great used to boast that his subjects could approach him at any time with a request and he would hear them. One day a beggar came and asked to see the great king. He was taken to the palace. Quite brazenly the beggar requested a farm for himself, a dowry for his daughter, and a fine education for his son. The monarch's aides were astonished when Alexander not only granted all three requests, but decreed that each should be fulfilled at once. "Why?" they asked. "Why did you do this thing?" The king replied, "I get so weary of people who come to me in fear and timidity, asking for small gifts. That beggar treated me like a king. He asked big!"

"Took her at her word...Treated me like a king." Are you getting the picture? You know my friends, we have allowed the frauds and fallacies of this world to so totally permeate our way of thinking that God has DIMINISHED in our estimation. We do NOT take Him at His Word nor do we treat Him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords! We have absorbed so much of the world's philosophies that we have reduced God to our limitations. I'm speaking of the Creator: Genesis, Chapters One and Two. He Who sent His Son to die on a cross for us, that His plan of Salvation could be completed for us. Salvation--the GREATEST miracle of all! Instead of believing He can do anything, we attach our own petty selfish notions to Him and then wonder why we "can't hear from Heaven"! I'm speaking of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I'm speaking of the God of Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21--the same God Who says, "I am the Lord, I change not" in Malachi 3:6. God has NOT changed--it is mankind who has tried to change Him to fit our ideas, our molds, our definitions, our speculations, our criteria, our "tolerance of all" things. I want you to know: the same God Who hates sin in the book (and time) of Genesis--the same God Who hates sin in the book (and time) of Revelation--our God is still that SAME GOD who hates sin TODAY!! He hasn't "cut any deals" with Satan--there is no "plea bargaining" with God. The Bible tells us that we are "confess our sins"--that is all encompassing. No picking and choosing. When Jesus spoke to the man He healed who was let down through the roof, when He spoke to the woman they brought before Him who had been caught in the act of adultery, what did He say? He told them both, "Sin NO MORE!"

When I was a child, Mother had a 2-word term she used when scolding me. She would say, "No wonder!" when I insisted on playing in the house and broke something, or refused to wear my coat and came in thoroughly chilled. Those times when I brought home a poor grade on a test; she'd ask, "Did you study?" I knew better than to lie--the evidence lay before me. When I'd answer, "No," she'd reply, "Well, no wonder!" It meant, "This is a no-brainer. This is not rocket science. It should be easy for you to figure out."

From Genesis to Revelation, there is promise after promise after promise to "them that believe", but therein lies the problem. We profess to honor God, but we don't or we'd take Him at His Word! But as many as received him, to them gave he POWER to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12,13. [Abraham] ...STAGGERED NOT at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And BEING FULLY PERSUADED that, WHAT HE [God] had PROMISED, HE WAS ABLE ALSO TO PERFORM. Romans 4:20,21.

We are so stupid (and there is no other word for it--we should know better--we have the Word of God to prove it!!) we have sat and listened to those who don't believe God is omnipotent, omniscient, all-powerful, everlasting. We've snuggled down into our comfort zones and reduced God to our own petty foolishness and limitations. No wonder we are called sheep! We "think" it's because sheep are soft and cuddly and sweet. Get over it! We are called sheep because sheep are dependent upon someone else to lead them. Sheep are not tended merely to keep away the predators--they are tended to keep them from doing harm to themselves! The Bible tells us, All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way... Isaiah 53:6. We need to be led, but instead of following THE SHEPHERD, we follow BLIND GUIDES: ...And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Matthew 15:14. Then we question how we got there?

No Wonder that Jesus spoke with such authority and power: He knew Who His father is. And when we are born again through salvation in Jesus Christ, we are "Children of God". God is OUR Father, too! Look at this: ...What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:9-11. Here's a STRONG one for us to swallow: Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. James 4:2,3. OUCH! You can't quite understand that? Well, The Living Bible puts it this way, and it doesn't get any plainer: "You want what you don't have, so you kill to get it. You long for what others have, and can't afford it, so you start a fight to take it away from them. And yet the reason you don't have what you want is that you don't ask God for it. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." "Well, I know the Lord can do it, BUT..." Ever caught yourself saying that? (I've been guilty of it, too.) You know what that "but..." is? A way for us to squirm out of admitting our lack of faith! Come on now, let's admit the truth of the matter. If we believed God is Who we profess He is, if we truly honored Him as King of King and Lord of Lords, if we meant it when we say "Our God is a GREAT God", we'd take the "buts" out of our prayers: "Lord, I know Your Word says You can heal, but..." or "Lord, I know Your Word says You will supply my every need, but..."

No Wonder that Paul tried so hard to explain it to us: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY ABOVE all that we ask OR THINK, according to the power that worketh in us. Ephesians 3:16-20. The key there is, according to the power that worketh in us. Exactly whose power do we have working in us? We deny the power of God; we don't have any power working in us: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: FROM SUCH TURN AWAY. II Timothy 3:1-5. Wait a minute--don't miss that last part: from such TURN AWAY. Who IS our Heavenly Father? Is He our GREAT God? The "God of ALL, the God over all"? We've got powerless, defeated, ignorant preachers (with all kinds of educational titles behind their names) telling us this or that is "not for today", that it "all died out". And we swallow it! Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. Romans 16:17,18. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. II Timothy 4:3,4. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines� Hebrews 13:8,9. Again, I remind you: Malachi 3:6 tells us: For I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT...

The reason we don't see the marvels of God is not because He has changed--we have! Our God is the same, yesterday, today and forever! He Is the same God Who created the heavens and the earth. He Is the same God Who rolled back the waters so the children of Israel could cross dry-shod. He Is the same God Who took the lions' appetites. He Is the same God Who was the fourth man in the fiery furnace! He Is the same God Who stepped onto the deck of that boat and spoke peace to the storm! He Is the same God Who healed the little woman of the issue of blood. He Is the same God Who healed the man at the Gate called Beautiful and the ten lepers, just to name a few. John said, And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. John 21:25. (You might like to check out He Is.) He's still God: *For I am the Lord, I change NOT*...

No Wonder we are told: The name of the Lord is a strong* tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.* Proverbs 18:10. Not just "a" tower, but a "STRONG" tower!
No Wonder we are not "just" conquerors: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Nay, in all these things we are MORE than conquerors through him that loved us. Romans 8:35,37.
No Wonder we need only a tiny amount of faith: ...If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Matthew 17:20.
No Wonder we don't have to be timid or cowardly before the Lord: Let us therefore come boldly* unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.* Hebrews 4:16. When you approach something boldly, it is because you have confidence in what you already know! Well? Where's our confidence in what we [are supposed to] know? Is it because we don't know it?

So, are we a child of "THE King" or not? And He is not only just "THE King"--He is also our FATHER! If we, as limited as we are, know how to give good gifts unto our children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Let Him be "kingly" to you--allow Him to do the things in your life that He wants to do. He has a perfect plan for each of us, and it includes the riches of His glory. NOT for our own selfish reasons, but that He would be magnified, He would be lifted up, He would be given all the glory! (all emphasis on scriptures, such as bold, underline or uppercase, is mine) "No Wonder" Copyright © 2001 by Patricia Sikes. All Rights Reserved.

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