God’s Revelation to His Servants

God’s Revelation to His Servants

“Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.”
Amos 3:7

God tells His servants the prophets what is going to happen because He wants to be unmistakable. He desires to be clearly identifiable to His people. God is not a firefighter reacting to the situation at hand. Contrarily, He is the one moving things into motion and setting the stage for the events. God does nothing without revealing it first to His prophets, His servants. He leaves no room for us to mistake His work for coincidence or the scheme of man. He proves He is the one and only God.

God speaks to our hearts through the Holy Spirit and His Word in many different forms. God knows the future because He holds the future in His hand. It is completely under His control. God will sometimes reveal His plan for our lives to us. He desires that we reach out to Him to seek guidance.

God has purpose in matters that we do not know yet as He is purposeful over what we do know. If there is something that you and I do not know yet, we must first seek an answer through prayer, His Word, and possibly fasting if medically appropriate and God moves us to do it. Sometimes He does not tell us things so that we will seek Him. Acts 17:26-27 says, “From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.” If we diligently seek God and He does not reveal to us an answer, it is because you and I have no need to know right now. There is a difference between need to know and want to know! We have to trust Him until that time comes. God does not say, “Oops, I forgot to tell you something.” He is not forgetful, absent minded, or distracted! We should not treat Him like He is such. He is the opposite. He is intentional and precise. When the time is right, He will tell us.

God created us with a need to have some adventure and some thrills. The key to God’s great adventure is to walk in obedience to His ways. Some of us confuse the drama that we have created through the consequences of sin with the adventure of Him. Creating drama in our lives through our continuous poor choices is not the same as the adventure of faith in Him. Yes, He can rescue us from our consequences. Yet, sometimes He does not rescue us entirely. When we walk in obedience to Him, we eliminate the need for the dramatic rescue.

God has given me promises for my life because I have sought Him. I don’t know the fullness of those promises. I am beginning to be more comfortable with the fact that I do not know what tomorrow will bring. I am putting my trust in my God who has brought me thus far. If I knew how the rest of my days would be, then it would be like reading the last chapter of a novel first. It would be the picture on the book cover that says a thousand words and reveals the book’s plot. It takes away the mystery and the fun.

Think about it. Lottie Moon did not know when she died in poverty in China that an international mission offering would be collected every Christmas in her name. David was not looking too much like a mighty king when he was cowering in a cave as a fugitive hiding from King Saul. When Paul was approving Stephen’s stoning, he would never have guessed that he would become a mighty apostle for Jesus. All were given some revelation by God at the right time and to the right degree. Lottie was called, David was anointed, and Paul was divinely encountered. Then, they began their journey with God, and they were given more revelation.

As I have learned, the journey can be equally as important as arriving at the destination. Additionally, the journey can make the destination sweeter. My independent, controlling, and planning self is learning to depend on Him. What about you? Has God told you something about your life? Do you believe that if you seek Him with pure motives that He will give you a revelation? Are you clinging to a word that He has given you, or have you released it?

Pray with me: Oh, Lord, thank You for Your promises. Thank You for not being our fortune teller. Thank You for not telling us the fullness of what the rest of our lives hold. Thank You, Father, that You let us seek You through each step of our lives. Thank You for the times when You reveal Your plan to us, Your servants. Thank You for being so unmistakable. You have identified Your hand and Your work in our lives so clearly. Keep setting the stage in motion. We ask to be people so close to You, such close servants, that when it comes time for You to reveal Your plan for our families, our friends, our schools, our churches, our cities, our nations, someone else, or the world, that You will choose us. We choose to closely abide with You and to care about what You care about. It’s in the Name above all names, in Jesus’ Name, Yeshua’s Name, I pray. Amen.

Excerpt from the Jesus Lives Bible study,
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