Last week I briefly discussed II Samuel 12:13-24 where David was judged by God for sinning with Bathsheba. God said No to the birth of David’s first child with Bathsheba despite David fasting, praying, mourning, and protesting to God. Afterward David worshiped meaning to submit to God.
When God says no, we are to submit to God’s will getting in agreement with God which is worship. I thought about it some more on this morning about how the Bible views agreement between believers. How much more when we get in agreement with God? When the people in Genesis began to build the tower of Babel, which was a tower up to heaven, God strategically separated them by giving them different languages to speak (Genesis 11:7).
This, he did saying; “They will be able to accomplish anything.” This describes the power of unity or agreement. The people building the tower of Babel would have built it all the way up to heaven and we would not have lived down here completing what God had given us to do. The Bible says when two or more come in agreement asking anything in his name, it will be done unto them (Matthew 18:19). How much more when we get into agreement with God?
Finally, a husband and wife are required to dwell in unity submitting to one another in the fear of the Lord. When this is not done between the couple, the Bible says that their prayers will be hindered (1 Peter 3:7). Once again, how much more when we get into agreement with God?
I have experienced quite a few of God’s knows at this point in my life. At first, when I experienced a no, I’d be disappointed and discouraged. I would take God’s no as a rejection, but now I see that God’s no’s actually protects my purpose that is hid in God’s will for my life.
When I first graduated from college, I applied for various media jobs, but thank God I did not get any of those jobs because they don’t pay enough to live off of, and they require a lot of time outside of normal work hours. I would have been so distracted trying to make a living; I would have never done the blog, book, or anything else. God clearly knew what he was doing. The job that God did give me allows me the time that I need outside of work to write, study, and enjoy my life. This is God’s purpose for me right now.
God has said no concerning men I have been interested in, and later I said thank God that he did not give me the guy that I wanted. Once again, my purpose with the wrong guy would have been gravely affected. Just like the men in Genesis building the tower of babel. Men were not made to live in heaven, we were made to live here on earth, and subdue the earth. That was our purpose given to us by God in the beginning. Is there a time when we will go to heaven? Yes, when we die or when Jesus comes back, but there is an appointed time for that. Trusting God’s no’s also means trusting his appointed times where he has said yes.
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