God’s love, which is stronger than death, is causing me to continue walking the path of the mission the Lord has given me (John 6:1–15). “At that very time some Pharisees came and said to Him, ‘Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod wants to kill You.’ He replied, ‘Go tell that fox, “I will keep driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach My goal.” In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet can die outside Jerusalem! Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. I tell you, you will not see Me again until you say, “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord” (Luke 13:31–35). ...
Why does God bring us to
a state of poverty?
God
said to the prophet Ezekiel:
‘I
will cut off the food supply to Jerusalem.
The
people will be in despair, eating their bread
by
weight and drinking their water by measure.
When
food and water run out,
they
will be appalled at each other’s wretched condition
and
will waste away because of their sin’
(Ezekiel
4:16-17).
Why
does God bring us to a state of poverty?
He
surely knows that we will be distressed and struggling in such circumstances.
Could
it be that God wants us to cry out to the Lord in our distress?
(Ref.:
Psalms 107:5-6)
Could
it be that God intends to make us realize the truth
that
our lives are like a evening shadow and a withering grass? (102:11)
Or
perhaps God is using our poverty to weigh us down
so
that we may resolve to confess our sins
and
disclose all our wrongdoings without hiding anything,
thereby
leading us to forgiveness? (32:4-5)
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