Mon.’s Devo - Trust in God

Read: 1 Chronicles 4:5-5:17, Acts 25:1-27, Ps. 5:1-12, Pr. 18:19 I remember reading the book of Jabez that came out years ago. Amazing that someone would stumble over one man’s two sentence prayer and write a whole book on it and we would start praying his prayer. God has so many nuggets of gold hidden away in this book. When He is ready to reveal one, He does it for the whole body to enjoy. Interesting to note, Jabez’s name means “mire swept away”. He was named that because he was so hard to deliver. To read it in the King James leads you to believe that he was her hardest delivery yet. But as soon as his mother saw him she forgot the trouble it took to get him there. That pain had been swept away. Jabez did not want pain to be his legacy so he prayed against it. It’s still a great prayer to pray. I love the next verse: “And God granted his request.” In Acts, Paul is appealing to Caesar over his own brothers. He knows he doesn’t stand a chance with Jews. The Romans had a just system of trials which allowed the accuser a chance to defend himself. That was all Paul wanted to do; he wanted to defend the gospel. He was not concerned about what would happened to him. God was actually orchestrating Paul to be able to witness to more people. Lord, help us to trust your orchestration in our lives when we don’t understand our circumstances.