Achieving Goals with God's Help

UV 3471/10000 Achieving Goals with the Help of God
And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness (faithfulness) to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24 v 12

Eliezer, the servant of Abraham had witnessed over the years that the God of his master Abraham was One who listened to prayers of his master and had greatly blessed him. God manifests His love and kindness to human beings by responding to our prayers. He does not seek to frustrate us but to bless and enlarge us. The serpent leader, in contrast, does not want us to succeed in our plans. He throws obstacles, distractions, hurdles in our way. The Servant Leader, Jesus wants us to succeed. He wants us to rejoice. At the wedding feast of Canna, He quickly grasped the gravity of the situation when it was reported to Him that the wine had run out. He found a miraculous solution for the problem.

All of us have personal goals, family goals, professional goals, social goals. The serpent leader frustrates our designs and obstructs our intentions but the Lord God prospers us in our work, our mission, our desire to achieve a specific goal or objective. Eliezer could have inherited the wealth of the household of Abraham if Isaac did not have an heir. But like a servant leader, he sought sincerely to fulfill the desire of his master, Abraham. He ventured far to Ur of Mesopotamia to seek a bride for Isaac. Eliezer asked for a sign of a kind heart and a generous spirit on the part of the woman he was seeking in a strange land for his master’s son, Isaac. The Lord led Rebekkah to the well at the time Eliezer and his caravan of camels stopped there.

The Servant Leader is not averse to our success in this lifetime. He manifests His favour and mercy in fulfilling our desires, in enabling us to accomplish our goals. Like Eliezer we must seek the Lord’s blessing and guidance before venturing on any project, mission or journey. The unseen hand of the Lord will guide us. The deep wisdom of the Lord will counsel us. The presence of the Lord will accompany us and strengthen us.